<div>
Can you ping other machines? Your ISP? Using IP number?<br />

</div>


Can you ping other machines? Your ISP? Using IP number?


<div>
I can't ping other machines, just myself. &nbsp;I think I may go back to Slackware. I had no problems with it.<br />

</div>


I can't ping other machines, just myself.  I think I may go back to Slackware. I had no problems with it.


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I have been trying to get my ppp link working with my ISP using OpenLinux. &nbsp;I had no trouble with slackware. &nbsp;The problem seems to be in accessing any computers on the Internet once I have got the ppp connection going. I have my chat script working fine. &nbsp;It dials in and when I run ifcfg it shows ppp0 with an IP number and some other info. &nbsp;The only links I can make are to my assigned IP number or localhost. &nbsp;Thanks for any help you can give.<br />
Joe Stillwell<br />
jstillw@pacifier.com
</div>
</div>


I have been trying to get my ppp link working with my ISP using OpenLinux.  I had no trouble with slackware.  The problem seems to be in accessing any computers on the Internet once I have got the ppp connection going. I have my chat script working fine.  It dials in and when I run ifcfg it shows ppp0 with an IP number and some other info.  The only links I can make are to my assigned IP number or localhost.  Thanks for any help you can give.
Joe Stillwell
jstillw@pacifier.com

PPP with Caldera OpenLinux

A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a software collection based on the Linux kernel and, often, on a package management system and are available for a variety of systems. A typical Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system (the most common being the X Window System), a window manager, and a desktop environment. Most Linux systems are open-source software made available both as compiled binaries and in source code form, allowing modifications to the original software. Over three hundred distributions are in active development, including commercially backed distributions (such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu) and community-driven distributions (such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch Linux).

Linux Distributions

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.