Re: Linux is Driving me $#@!!!! nutz!!!

Note: Crosspost to misc.survivalism deleted. Sorry, but I don't
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In article <phunr15nq6i5ubofl702epc3ulfqjqr05o@xxxxxxx>,
Gunner <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:Connected via modem (kppp) to earthlin
:Contents of resolve.config
:
:
:domain earthlink.net #kppp temp entry
:# nameserver 206.13.28.12 #entry disabled by kppp
:# nameserver 205.152.0.20 #entry disabled by kppp
:nameserver 207.217.126.81 #kppp temp entry
:nameserver 207.217.77.82 #kppp temp entry
:nameserver 207.217.95.8 #kppp temp entry
:===============
:Doing a route call from terminal
:
:gunner@1[~]$ route
:Kernel IP routing table
:Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
:acn09.ca-pasade * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
:default acn09.ca-pasade 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
:gunner@1[~]$
:
:Im running dialup, and the Box is configured to connect to the local
:network here at home, via nic card on eth0. For some reason..it wants
:to send internet requests to the lan, rather than the ISP (via
:dialup), unless I turn off eth0. I run static IPs assigned to each
:machine in the LAN in the 192.168.0,1-192.168.0.15 range, with a mask
:of 255.255.255.0, not having a DCHP server assigning them.
:
:Im rather like a moderately retarded kitten flailing around with a
:ball of yarn..and the yarn is winning.
:
:Ok..here is a big question...in dos, we have the config.sys and
:autoexec.bat files, where house keeping settings are made, and then
:various programs are run on boot. What is the Linux equivelent? What
:is the boot sequence, and what is looked for as it boots?
:
:Example..it makes a call and trys to look up ntpdate..outside time
:server on bootup. Where is this and how do I edit it out?
:
:I really really need to get some books on this damit...
:
:Im tempted to reinstall, without the nic card, let it autoconfigure
:the dialup, then add the nic card after.

The arrangement of configuration files and the GUI tools that you
normally use to set them up varies among distributions. As long as you
keep saying, "I've tried these 5 distributions ..." it's hard to give
you specific answers. I'm familiar with Fedora Core 3. I have no idea
which of the others might be similar. Unfortunately, it's been a long
time since I had to configure a PPP connection, and the last time I
did it was with a homebrew script and not the very primitive tools
that were available at the time.

The routing table you've shown looks just fine. It makes no mention of
eth0. Is this because you had eth0 disabled for this test and PPP was
actually working? If so, you need to show what the routine table looks
like when PPP is _not_ working properly. I suspect that your problem
would be solved by configuring eth0 _without_ a default route. The
PPP daemon typically won't override an existing default route.

The nameservers that kppp is finding are working nameservers, and the
output from the 'route' command is showing the result of the reverse
lookup of the gateway IP address, so it looks like DNS queries, at
least, are being correctly routed over the ppp0 interface.

As for disabling functions like NTP, see if you have the command-line
tool 'chkconfig'. If you do (distribution-dependent, again), then
permanently turning off NTP is most likely just a matter of running

chkconfig --level 12345 ntpd off

from the command line. That's a commonly available low-level tool. Any
given distribution almost certainly has a nice GUI tool for enabling and
disabling system services and daemons.

--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
.

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