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Re: [PLUG] More PPP stuff....
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In a message dated 4/20/00 10:42:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
lopp@earthlink.net writes:
<< DrexelDG@aol.com wrote:
> Ok thanks to everyone who helped me/us yesterday.
>
> I have another rather intresting problem now....
> Interesting would be an understatement....
>
>
> I am on the web with the Linux box, and able to forward packets to the
> windows machines... enabling them to have access to the wonderful world
wide
> web.
>
> However... after I dial into the net, I can no longer lanuch any programs
> from Linux..
> Huh? First things first, we need to sort out some terminology......"can no
> longer launch any programs", to me, says that you can't run any
> programs...meaning that you can't open an xterm, can't open another netscape
> window, can't type "ps" on a command line without it barfing "segmentation
> fault" or something back. I sure hope that this is not the case.....
ok ok... I cannot lanuch any new appliactions from the X desktop. I can
still log into another term, by hitting ctrl alt F 1 or whatever, and do
things from there.
> . the ones that I have up are fine.... but any new ones are
> unable to lanuch.
> Let me see if I understand.....
> 1) You open netscape and browse your machine and the windows machines.
> 2) You connect to your ISP
> 3) Netscape can now go out over the web.
> 4) You close netscape
> 5) You try to start netscape and nothing appears.
> What if you try to open a link in a new window?
The problem was more correctly stated by saying that if I had Netscape open
when I connected to the net, it would be fine.
However any addational applications that I launched from X would not go
anywhere as long as I was connected to the net.
>I think this has something to do with setting the default
> gateway to the one that the ISP assigns me.
>The default gateway is where your machine sends all IP traffic that isn't
for a
>machine on the local network (like your windows boxes). This shouldn't be a
>problem. Might this be an Xserver/Xclient problem? That the processes are
>launching, but the DISPLAY variable is somehow munged?
Well the gateway was not the problem..... it was the IP address of the
machine going through kPPP. I told the machine take the IP addy assigned by
the ISP and use it as the default for that machine.
I know that I did this because when I logged in on ctrl alt f2, instead of
saying
root@localhost
It said
root@151.197.111.111 (The IP address that was given to me by the ISP)
When I fixed this problem, meaning I disabled the function, everything worked
out fine.
:)
Again, thanks for the aid.
Anthony
>Please, more detail on what you mean by "cannot launch".
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