From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 15: 5:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC2737B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.a1poweruser.com (oh-chardon6a-34.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.169.105.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30E743F7B for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barbish@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish (unknown [10.0.10.6]) by smtp.a1poweruser.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DC97AD for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:13:16 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "JoeB" To: Subject: RE: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:05:18 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030122222229.GH95122@keyslapper.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I take it you mean that you added iface clear to the ppp.linkdown? I thought I was supposed to add it to ppp.conf. I'm also trying to figure out the best way to kill ppp and restart the connection clean without having to reboot the machine. Any ideas there? Thanks a lot for the reply. Lou ********************************** ppp.linkdown is an older way of doing the same thing as putting it in the ppp.conf both ways work Killall ppp will stop user ppp ppp -direct incoming -nat incoming is the section name in your ppp.conf where your account id and password is coded. -nat turns on Network Address Translation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message