Very Computer

I'm having a problem connecting to my ISP on my Red Hat 4.2 box.
Everything's configured and I get a good connection, but I can't get
anything to work. Ping doesnt do anything, neither does finger. my
ifconfig looks like this:

        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
          inet addr:207.114.1.114  P-t-P:207.114.1.251
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

and my routing table looks like this

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
207.114.1.251   *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        3
lo
default         *               0.0.0.0         U     0      0        1
ppp0
default         207.114.1.251   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0

I tried adding a default gateway, but that didn't work either, so I'm
pretty stumped.  The name of my provider is Abs Net in Ellicott City
Maryland, if anyone has gotten PPP to work with them, please drop me a
line.
-Rob

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This is the first thing I always check with ppp problems like this..

Are you pinging with numbers or names?
If using names (ie, ftp.netscape.com) try numbers,
if that works you have a name resolving problem.

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