Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:27:13 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PPP has a mind of it's own! Message-ID: <20030514162713.GA376@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030514150047.48384.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030514062407.554AA37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20030514150047.48384.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2003-05-14 08:00, RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am enjoying learning FreeBSD but I have come to a strange little > showstopper for which I can think of no rational explanation, and find > no information in my researches. > > I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on /dev/ad2s1 and it runs beautifully. > The installation was experimental, but as I learned more, I decided I > need more space. So I cleared out half my first disk and set up a 15 > gig partition for FreeBSD there. > > Strangely enough, though, while the partition on the second hard drive > holds the same OS installed from the same CD, the two installations > are acting very differently when it comes to connecting to the > internet. > > I can connect to the internet through the new install (I am using > PPP), but I seem to be getting no response whenever I try to do > anything. Ports can't be fetched, web pages don't open, and pings > never go. I see that the lights on the modem flash for both outgoing, > and occasionally returning packets, but nothing else happens. The most likely cause of this is differences in the configuration of the two installations. In general, a good way of seeing what these differences are is: * boot installation A. * mount root filesystem of installation B under /mnt * Run diff: # diff -ruN /etc /mnt/etc > I tried using dd to copy the partitions from my old install to my new > install, and while that produced working ppp, it also recreated the > exact size of those partitions. Argh! Now you can't check for diffs now :( > By the way, for those who would advise me to use 4.x... I have done > that, too, and - yep - I have the same exact problem. > > I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas? Please??? More details on the setup of ppp, your DNS resolver setup, and any errors you're seeing while connected please. - Giorgos
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