From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 16:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29546 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29480 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22363; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:15:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA02868; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:14:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809182314.AAA02868@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: Doug White , Brian Somers , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Little PPP stupid probs... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:21:14 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:14:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sorry about this crap... I'm behaving like a lazy beginner, sorry. > > I tried to use ppp's term command to log in and effectively remarked that > my chat script wasn't correct. So here is my little session: [.....] > ppp ON outpost> > PPP ON outpost> Warning: Del route failed: 0.0.0.0: Non-existent > // I don't understand this ast message... > // I then wait a few minutes and it simply disconnects... > PPP ON outpost> fetchmail: no other fetchmail is running > Can't connect to audio server > > ppp ON outpost> q This looks good. I suspect the above error is caused by a line saying something like ``delete 0'' in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup. This should not be a problem. If you want to keep the line, change it to ``delete! 0'' - the ``!'' tells ppp to ``just do it and shut up''. As you've got the ``PPP'' (capitals) prompt, you've successfully authenticated. This doesn't necessarily mean you've negotiated IPCP yet (this is the ``layer'' that lets you transfer IP traffic over the link), but if the ``delete 0'' error message from above is comming from something in ppp.linkup, it means that IPCP works ok. If in doubt, add IPCP logging (``set log +ipcp'') to see how that side of things fairs. My guess is that you haven't got a line in ppp.linkup that says add 0 0 HISADDR or add default HISADDR They both do the same thing - and are necessary to say ``send traffic down this link by default''. The disconnect is probably due to the inactivity timer. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > I guess I'm missing some info about that ISP... Check that /etc/resolv.conf contains lines saying nameserver x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is your ISPs DNS - you can have lots of these lines. Appart from this, there's no other ISP information that needs to be entered (except maybe when configuring mail). > Sorry again for being so imprecise... > > There's one other thing... This last try in term mode didn't issue any > log. Is it nmormal? No. It should always write to the log unless you ``set log'' with values that prevent it. Bear in mind too, you can ``set log local ...'' to see stuff displayed on the screen instead of (or as well as) the log file. I reckon your best bet at this point is to get the latest ppp from http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html Ppp now remembers the ``add default hisaddr'' line so you can just put it in ppp.conf and forget about it (it's not required in ppp.linkup). It's also got lots of new features and is generally more robust than older versions. The latest version has some pretty precise information on connecting to your ISP in the man page and has a much more detailed ppp.conf.sample too. [.....] > +-----------------------------------+ > | Free the world from businessmen | > | Free yourself from your money | > +-----------------------------------+ > Free the web. > Spidey > > visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message