From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 8 20:06:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11515 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA11498 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA10208; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 04:04:35 GMT Message-Id: <199711090404.EAA10208@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Patrick Kimball cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static IP Connection In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 20:15:47 EST." <3.0.3.32.19971108201547.00798dc0@cape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 04:04:35 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Help! After rigorously following the PPP HOWTO, I get a good dial, login, > and packet mode on the ppp prompt. The log and ipcp commands show a good > connection; the hdlc command indicates no errors. But the ping to an > outside site fails; and the browsers don't work. My ISP has given me a > static IP, and the routing table shows a proper default route. But after > about five minutes, the connection dies. I have Linux on another partition > which works fine with pppd. Thanks, Patrick Kimball. Have you got /etc/resolv.conf configured correctly ? What happens when you ping using an IP number rather than a name ? -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....