From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 16:37:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB98337BBF8 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterschwenk@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.40.47.120]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000313003724.OSUZ6019.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:37:24 -0800 Message-ID: <38CC3844.7A2C514A@home.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:37:24 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd worked this morning!? References: <4.2.0.58.20000312170145.0097f4c0@hecky.acns.nwu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG User PPP (man ppp) is a billion times easier to setup than kernel, plus it's got a ton of good features (NAT, packet filtering, etc.). I would set that up, if I were you. There are example setup files in /usr/share/examples/ppp. Plus, there's a good tutorial on setting it up at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/index.html. I used it with my external ISDN terminal adapter (looked like a regular modem from the perspective of the computer) and set it up for demand-dialing. It was very cool. "David J. Kanter" wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 3.4 yesterday, added myself to the network group, and > was able to use mutt, slrn, and netscape. But later on today, for some > reason, pppd stopped working. > > The modem call goes through, and ifconfig ppp0 shows an ip address and > netmask value, but if I run fetchmail or netscape nothing happens. I'm > using Windows now, so I know it's not the ISP. > > My connect script is the usual kernel ppp thing: > > pppd /dev/cuaa4 115200 connect '' user username > > And my disconnect script is killall -9 pppd. Could that be an issue? > > Thanks for any help. > > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- - Peter Schwenk - peterschwenk@home.com - - Give FreeBSD a try! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message