Checking internet connection without a winbox

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:47 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 16/07/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I am sorry you are still having this problem. I thought you had already
> > found a solution. Maybe its the bits are going right to left and not
> > left to right (sorry a private joke related to Dotan being in Israel)
> 
> Actually the router modem had abducted 3 bits and injured 7 more- the
> router is retaliating.
> 
> > I just tried something that might help. I pinged my router. No packets
> > lost.  If you do that you could eliminate traffic from your machine to
> > the router. Then as was suggested a combination of ping and traceroute
> > should pinpoint where on the route trace the packets are beginning to be
> > lost. It seems to me that would localize the problem.
> 
> I had run mtr many times, the router itself does have some loss, as do
> other nodes in the system. So I'd like to connect the machine directly
> to the router, but then I can't dial in to the ISP. Maybe someone here
> could advise me on how to do that? This is my dial-in connection
> information, taken from the routers' control panel:
> WAN Type: L2TP
> IP Mode: Dynamic IP Address
> Server IP Address: Lns4.actcom.net.il
> L2TP Account: etykot at CActcom
> L2TP Password: SecretPassword
> 
> Windows machines can dial in using the ISP's dialer, or using the
> built-in windows dialer.
> 
I am missing something. If the windows dialer can dial in why can't a
dialer program on Linux like kppp?
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