From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 23:52:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20143 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20137 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.054 #1) id 0zqYEP-00001g-00; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:52:21 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id HAA01803; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:51:47 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00956; Thu, 17 Dec 98 07:51:46 GMT Message-Id: <3678B7D1.FC7C957D@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:50:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: alissa bader Cc: Brian Somers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more PPP help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG alissa bader wrote: > > 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 Have you got something like delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR in your ppp.conf?. I know it shows that in the handbook, but when I u/g to the latest ppp source I started getting this message. rian Somers said it was because he fixed something. You only need these lines in ppp.linkup, the message is harmless. > Warning: Config: dns: No such key word > Warning: enable: Failed 1 As it says, ``dns'' is not a valid option. Remove ``enable dns'' from ppp.conf. > 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 > add 204.215.84.1.0 0 HISADDR > Try provider: delete ALL add 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message