[ale] Linux ISP Dialing w/ MCI Worldcom

[Gene Matthews]

I am pretty new to Linux and am trying to get set up to dial into my ISP
(MCI Worldcom) with Linux.  Their tech support is relatively worthless (sad
to say since I work for MCI Worldcom); all they say is they don't support
it.  I saw a thread on their support news group (mciworld.users.support)
where someone else asked for the DNS IPs and their reply was that they are
assigned dynamically!  I am familiar, in concept at least, with DHCP, so I
understand that client IPs are assigned dynamically, but if they are trying
to say the DNS IP is assigned dynamically, I think they are all wet.  Has
anyone successfully connected to them under Linux.  I have been unable to
obtain a DNS server name/ip.

If not, who are the more Linux friendly ISPs in the metro Atlanta area.


Thanks,

Gene

-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Eric Z.
Ayers
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 7:43 AM
To: Scott Nolde
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Killing a route


Scott,

Sometimes, you need to specify almost the entire line sent to 'route
add' in order to delete it.   It isn't this way on all operating systems.

# route add -net 10.70.161.0 gw 10.70.162.130 netmask 255.255.255.0
# netstat -nr

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
Iface
170.11.1.1      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0
ppp0
10.70.162.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0
eth0
10.70.161.0     10.70.162.130   255.255.255.0   UG        0 0          0
eth0
0.0.0.0         170.11.1.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0
ppp0

# route del -net 10.207.161.0
SIOCDELRT: Invalid argument
# route del -net 10.207.161.0 gw 10.207.162.130
SIOCDELRT: Invalid argument
# route del -net 10.207.161.0 gw 10.207.162.130 netmask 255.255.255.0

Note that only the last line  actually worked.

-Eric.


Scott Nolde writes:
 > What is the proper command to delete a route from the route table?  I've
 > had to reboot because of a bad route associated with a ppp interface.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Scott
 >
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------
 >                  Scott Nolde
 >          smnolde-linux at mindspring.com
 > ------------------------------------------------