From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 11:24:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04001 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.clara.net (root@hermes.clara.net [195.8.69.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03985 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:24:11 GMT (envelope-from matthew@federal.co.uk) Received: from default (du-656.claranet.co.uk [195.8.75.184]) by hermes.clara.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA10769 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:24:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3534F4DC.3AAD@federal.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:56:44 +0100 From: Matthew Sharlot Organization: Federal Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HELP!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm having a really bad day. Could someone please help me? I am a complete network dummy, so explainations of any actions I should take would be of great help for helping me in the future. The Problem. I have after several hours of swearing managed to establish a PPP connection to my ISP via my modem. I cannot however get out on to the internet. I'm trying to use Mosaic as it came on the installation CD and getting nowhere. I'm pretty sure that my problem lies with routing. I've messed around with /etc/rc.conf but I'm not sure what I should be putting in. The setup I currently have in win95 is server assigned IP addresses and a primary DNS of 194.164.41.7 and a secondary DNS of 194.164.41.12 Not ever having been connected to any other networks I don't have an IP address of my own that I can use for my end of the link (come to think about it I don't even know if I should have one or not). Anyway I'm in dire straits and could really use some help. I'm just hoping that the help anyone can give me will help me understand things a bit better, as I'm going to be really stuffed when I get my 64k line in, if I can't figure out networking basics. Thanks in advance Matthew Sharlot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message