I've been trying to connect to the Internet in DSL via a GPRS enabled mobile phone.
It looks like I'm connecting and it looks like I'm sending data out from the phone - the problem is that it looks like the data does not get back from the phone to my DSL machine.
I have the feeling I need some kind of ppp command to tie things up - does anybody have any ideas?
CONNECT --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Sat Jan 13 15:20:30 2007 --> pid of pppd: 1492 --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: =0 --> pppd: =0 --> local IP address 217.165.202.235 --> pppd: =0 --> remote IP 217.165.202.234 --> pppd: =0 --> primary DNS address 195.229.241.222 --> pppd: =0 --> secondary DNS address 213.42.20.20 --> pppd: =0
At this point I opened another terminal window and tried to ping various address - the only address I get is the remote IP address:
# ping 217.165.202.234 PING 217.165.202.234 (217.165.202.234): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 217.165.202.234: icmp_seq=0 ttl=250 time=2914.0 ms
# ifconfig
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:217.165.202.235 P-t-P:217.165.202.234 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:484 (484.0 b) TX bytes:6061 (5.9 KiB)What is the output of the route command? Who/What provides your gateway?
Quote (roberts @ Jan. 20 2007,14:09)
What is the output of the route command? Who/What provides your gateway?
CONNECT --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Sun Jan 21 09:49:49 2007 --> pid of pppd: 1570 --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: =0 --> pppd: =0 --> local IP address 217.165.200.209 --> pppd: =0 --> remote IP address 217.165.200.208 --> pppd: =0 --> primary DNS address 195.229.241.222 --> pppd: =0 --> secondary DNS address 213.42.20.20 --> pppd: =0
# route [using a 2nd terminal window] Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 217.165.200.208 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 default 217.165.200.208 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
In the same fashion as dial-up using a "normal" modem, I was presuming that the ISP would provide the gateway - I can browse the Internet directly from the phone using GPRSI'm still trying to make this work (irritatingly, GPRS over Bluetooth and irda works in W2K without any setup at all) and wondered if using wvdial on DSL might be the problem.
I looked at the ppp directories in DSL right after boot and found that etc/ppp is symlinked to /opt/ppp and thus the /peers subdirectory appears as /opt/ppp/peers.
Although the wvdial application is not present in DSL, there are two files in /opt/ppp/peers with wvdial in their name:
wvdial ------ noauth name wvdial usepeerdns
wvdial-pipe ----------- noauth name wvdial plugin passwordfd.so defaultroute replacedefaultroute
Does anybody know of a reason for these two files to be present?
If I install the deb package for wvdial, it places files in etc/ppp and etc/ppp/peers and thus overwrites the symlink to /opt/ppp. Whilst this doesn't appear to be a problem for "dial-up classic" with wvdial, I'm wondering if this is the reason why GPRS dial-up apparently connects, data goes out but nothing appears to make it back to DSL?