From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 2: 6:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7C437B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 02:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Z8TR-000CPy-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:04:57 +0300 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:04:57 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.conf Message-ID: <20000913120457.A26396@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000912193610.428A137B42C@hub.freebsd.org> <20000912215921.AC00C37B424@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000912215921.AC00C37B424@hub.freebsd.org>; from Bert Hiddink on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:08:30PM -0600 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 12:01PM up 16 days, 51 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.61, 0.54, 0.49 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Bert Hiddink : [000913 00:58]:=20 Bert Hiddink>Hello, Matthew, Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>El 12 Sep 00, a las 17:01, Matthew Emmerton escribi=F3:=20 Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Bert Hiddink wrote: Bert Hiddink>>=20 Bert Hiddink>> > Hello, Bert Hiddink>> >=20 Bert Hiddink>> > Could someone help me out with the configuration of my ppp= . My Bert Hiddink>> > ppp.conf looks like this: Bert Hiddink>>=20 Bert Hiddink>> Bert Hiddink>>=20 Bert Hiddink>> It's because when you load ppp and type 'dial', all it does = is execute Bert Hiddink>> the stuff under the default: label. Bert Hiddink>>=20 Bert Hiddink>> If you want to dial the number you've specified under the pa= pchap Bert Hiddink>> label, you need to say 'dial papchap'. I would also conside= r changing Bert Hiddink>> the label name to something a bit mor informative (perhaps r= elating to Bert Hiddink>> the ISP?) Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>Thanks for this! Indeed now it marks the number and seems to d= o the=20 Bert Hiddink>handshaking... but after a while it says: Warning: chat script= =20 Bert Hiddink>failed! Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>I checked a manual of Steve Sims Bert Hiddink>http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/index.html Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>He explains to add a second file, apart from ppp.conf, to the= =20 Bert Hiddink>/etc/ppp/ directory. Might that be tthe problem here?=20 Bert Hiddink>http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/x340.html#AEN530 Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>Would it be helpful to add the DNS entries of my ISP somewhere= ? If=20 Bert Hiddink>positive, where should I put these? Bert Hiddink> Bert Hiddink>Could you help me some more? Bert Hiddink> Remark the line with chat script, which starts with set login...bla bla #set login -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessl= y=20 inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is = too=20 clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN= =20 Notices, Volume 17, Number 5=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message