From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 17:46:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20860 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20634 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:46:08 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA01999; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:45:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: FREDERICK NEAL TILLERY cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP Connection Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, FREDERICK NEAL TILLERY wrote: > I am using 2.2.5-Release and the newest version of User PPP. I > successfully negotiate an IP from my ISP and set his IP as the default > route every time I connect. Unfortunately what seems to be every other > day, I can't ping the other end of the PPP connection. The next day > everything works find and I can talk to the rest of the Internet without > having made any configuration changes. Hm, either you're not deleting your default route when you exit or your ISP is having problems with routing or is experimenting with blocking icmp messages. You might try running `delete ALL' at the ppp> prompt before you dial when you have problems and see if it clears up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message