From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 21:42:13 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA08194 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:42:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from Mail.IDT.NET (mail.idt.net [198.4.75.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA08185 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from metropolis.idt.net (partek@metropolis.idt.net [198.4.75.62]) by Mail.IDT.NET (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26705 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:42:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 00:42:07 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson Reply-To: David Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: totally stumped about pppd and connecting to other freebsd boxes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got this very weird problem. I'm using pppd, chat, et al to connect to a PPP account I have, which allocates a dynamic IP address(I'm used to static ones, so..). Well, the problem I'm having is whenever I try to connect to various FreeBSD boxes. For example: partek:~> telnet soho.ios.com Trying 198.4.75.47... Connected to soho.ios.com. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host Does the same for any other tcp based connection(i.e. SMTP, POP3, HTTP) Same for a few other FreeBSD boxes, even ones on different networks. Yet ones like www.cdrom.com and www.freebsd.org work just fine.. The even weirder thing is, I can connect to BSDI, Solaris, OSF/1, etc systems with absolutely no problem at all. I'm relatively sure it's not the ppp setup because I had no problems before when I was using a different ISP, only difference then was that I had a static IP. (All I changed in my config was the phone number!) I'm not on the list, so a direct email reply would be helpful, thanks :) TIA, Dave