James May writes:
> I can connect to my isp everytime; BUT every other time, ifconfig
> shows the inet address to be my local eth0 address (192.168.1.1) even
> though the P-t-P: address will be a valid ip assigned by my isp via
> dhcp.

Debug logs, configuration information, and cut-n-copy command output
are really helpful. Descriptions of what happens are somewhat less
so.

Are you using 'noipdefault' in your configuration? If not, you likely
should be.

> There used to be an option to ignore the local dns service while ppp0
> was active and i had it checked (but that didn't help).

No, there's no such option as a standard part of pppd. But there is
(and has been for quite some time) a 'usepeerdns' option -- this will
place the addresses of any peer DNS servers (found through RFC 1877)
in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. What you do with those addresses is up to
you, though; the pppd package doesn't do anything special with them.

One *possible* usage is to create a symlink like this:

# rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
# ln -s /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

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James Carlson, IP Systems Group
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Hello,
Thank you very much! Placing noipdefault and usepeerdns in the
/etc/ppp/options file fixed the problem. The only option that was in
there was lock.

You have saved me a great deal of aggravation (modem handshakes tend to
be long in this rural area).

(primary and secondary dns servers were always placed in
/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf even when the problem occured).

You have been very helpful.

Regards, James May

James Carlson wrote:
> James May writes:
>
>>I can connect to my isp everytime; BUT every other time, ifconfig
>>shows the inet address to be my local eth0 address (192.168.1.1) even
>>though the P-t-P: address will be a valid ip assigned by my isp via
>>dhcp.
>
>
> Debug logs, configuration information, and cut-n-copy command output
> are really helpful. Descriptions of what happens are somewhat less
> so.
>
> Are you using 'noipdefault' in your configuration? If not, you likely
> should be.
>
>
>>There used to be an option to ignore the local dns service while ppp0
>>was active and i had it checked (but that didn't help).
>
>
> No, there's no such option as a standard part of pppd. But there is
> (and has been for quite some time) a 'usepeerdns' option -- this will
> place the addresses of any peer DNS servers (found through RFC 1877)
> in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. What you do with those addresses is up to
> you, though; the pppd package doesn't do anything special with them.
>
> One *possible* usage is to create a symlink like this:
>
> # rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
> # ln -s /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
>