From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 19:03:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25320 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25314 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05832; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 03:02:55 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199709200202.DAA05832@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: beef@tht.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp problems... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:08:48 EDT." <199709191608.MAA00239@tht.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 03:02:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > I have a very big problem which has made me download FreeBSD 2.2.2 > over 4 times this week :-( > > The joke is that when i put the boot floppie and start the novice installation > i set up ppp0 on com 2 and it get to ftp.freebsd.org with NO problem. > > When i finish the install, and connect with ppp, there is no connecting > problem. But I am unable to get out on the net. Today i tried something > a little different. When the ppp came back to PPP ON THT> I did > add 209.47.145.10 255.255.255.0 209.47.145.1 and now i can (and am currently) > go on the net. The problem is that the first IP can be 209.47.145.10 or > 209.47.145.11 depending on which portmaster picks me up. [.....] You're not typing "add 0 0 HISADDR" after you enter packet mode. This can be put in your ppp.linkup file too. It's mentioned in the handbook and in the man page. > Lanny Baron > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....