From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 22 17:53:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from msg-proxy3.mweb.co.za (msg-proxy3.mweb.co.za [196.2.46.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB39F37B41C for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siberiyan.dyndns.org ([196.30.183.2]) by msg-proxy3.mweb.co.za (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GK3000ANBTNB9@msg-proxy3.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:53:49 +0200 (SAST) Received: by siberiyan.dyndns.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:54:11 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:54:11 +0200 From: Piet Delport Subject: Re: PPP what next! In-reply-to: <20010919072741.U84181-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> To: Dru Cc: Raymond Pert , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Dru , Raymond Pert , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20010923025411.A23038@athalon> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0ax BETA (http://www.vim.org/) X-Crypto: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6 (http://www.gnupg.org/) X-GPG-Key-ID: 0x6B191427 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7FF A540 2199 F7BF 1933 5640 CD15 0FF3 6B19 1427 References: <20010919072741.U84181-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 at 07:32:15 -0400, Dru wrote: > If your prompt changes to all caps or PPP, you're connected. You've > also lost that prompt for the duration of your connection, so open up > another terminal using your ALT Function keys. Running a trace route > or a ping to a URL is a good connection test. When you're finished, > return to the terminal with the PPP prompt and type the word by. The prompt isn't necessarily lost. You can press to suspend PPP and return to your prompt, then immediately type `bg' to let it continue executing in the background. To shut it down again, type `fg' to bring it into the foreground, then `close' to close the connection. --=20 Piet Delport Today's subliminal thought is: --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE7rTKzzRUP82sZFCcRAjGaAJ9rGqb3yh9z4UsLynWAh3MXx0C0hACfWzRk 9hUyxyL28WG19+jfqn0caR0= =lfAn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message