Re: Bringing PocketPC with SynCE to Linux and Internet

[Gerrit Leder]

Alexander Harsch wrote:
> Gerrit Leder wrote:
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am failing to route a ppp connection to an ethernet Internet
> > connection. Starting at the beginning:
> > I have connected a PocketPC in the USB craddle via ppp and synce to a
> > linux box.
> >
> > Now I am able to ping form the PocketPC to the ppp linux ip address and
> > vice versa.
> >
> > I am not able to ping the linux ethernet ip address and internet.
> >
> > Programm route seems to work and firewall is down.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Gerrit Leder
>
> Hello Gerrit,
>
> if no firewall is active, then you propably have not enabled ip forwarding.
> Check with 
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> If it says 0 then do
> echo "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> With kind regards, Alex

Thank you for your tip. I double checked that and it makes no difference 
for the pda, when pinging the laptop/internet. Here I add the output of 
the route command:

Kernel IP Routentabelle
Ziel            Router          Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.131.201 *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

I should reach eth0 and the router to the net with ip address 192.168.0.1

Perhaps it has something to do with ppp (auto) configuration, which I am 
unaware of.

Thank you again,
Gerrit