PPPoE "Connected!" but can't ping [solved]

exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

Ok, so I had gentoo installed like a year ago, with the old adsl days, now I tried to install from the 2007.0 livecd with the pppoe stuff, I got it to "Connected!" with no problems, but I couldn't ping anything, always got the "Destination Net Unreachable", I also tried ubuntu, the pppoe stuff there works great :/ But I want gentoo!!!!!11 ;x So if you could just gimme some ideas what I could try, maybe knowing the differences from the old adsl tool and the present pppoe tool on 2007.0, I kinda have a thought that this might also be a common problem, btw I would post you all the logs and output you need if only you can tell me how, since I couldn't mount my usb flash on the gentoo livecd, complained about wrong filesystem etc Oo
Thank you in advance

nixnut · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

Simply use the ubuntu cd to install gentoo. Boot the ubuntu cd, prepare the harddisk, download the stage3 file etc etc. Or use the gentoo livecd and do a networkless install.
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exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

but I'll still be stuck without connectivity and will need to solve this problem anyway :/

nixnut · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

Sure, but it won't hold up your installation of gentoo. Perhaps you can find some solution in the Networking & Security forum.
Maybe this
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exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

nop, no luck there :/ maybe you could kinda move my thread there?

nixnut · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
There you go

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exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

ok some output for u, like comparison of the working and not working (gentoo doesn't work):

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soka · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject:

In gentoo you have your default gateway set to eth0 when it should point to ppp0. I don't remember how the pppoe set up goes on the live cd but you should have the option pppd_ppp0=("defaultroute") in the config file. You can also try setting it manually with the route command.

exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

I already got to the point of realising, that pppd in ubuntu changes the default route and gentoo doesn't, now I just gotta find a way to make it do so in gentoo

exyan · n00b Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

<3 gentoo irc community, just needed to do "route add default ppp0" and it all works