From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 23:13:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16034 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16026 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21149; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:12:39 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA01843; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:13:50 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199812170713.HAA01843@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: alissa bader cc: Brian Somers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more PPP help In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:10:56 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:13:50 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Make sure you've got no default route set in /etc/rc.conf. It also looks like the ``set ifaddr'' line isn't correct. If you get the latest ppp from http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html it should work perfectly - and you can remove ppp.linkup and ppp will understand the ``enable dns''. > hey there: thanks for the help! I followed your instructions and lo > and behold, got it to automatically dial when I typed "dial provider." > > However, got some weird messages when I asked it to dial: > > ppp ON 208> dial provider > Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0: errno: Network is unreachable > Warning: Config: dns: No such key word > Warning: enable: Failed 1 > Dial attempt 1 of 1 > Phone: (and then blah blah, it dials and lets me connect to my isp, > however something is still not registering because I can't get > home.netscape.com to work) > > here are the contents of my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file :" > > MYADDR: > delete 0 > add 0 0 HISADDR > > 208.238.64.144 ^ Missing ``:'' > add 204.215.84.1.0 0 HISADDR > > > eeek....something tells me I'm almost getting this, like I'm a step away > from getting this... > > good thing you people on this list are patient with the likes of us > newbies. 'Cause I've discovered that once you get a problem settled, > there's another. For example, there's that situation with the funky > colors in X, but I'll ask y'all that later, after I get my machine > connected to the 'net. > > thanks again! > > --alissa > > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message