From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 05:25:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13022 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from millennium.net (mrvid.demon.co.uk [194.222.140.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12993 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by millennium.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA05490; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:31:49 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:31:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists X-Sender: lists@millennium.net To: Doug Jolley cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP - Manual Dial In-Reply-To: <199801150248.SAA02004@jupiter.neptune.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Doug Jolley wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm trying to follow the MANUAL dialing procedure described in > the ppp man page to establish a ppp connection with my ISP. > I'm able to get the peer connection as indicated by the > capitalized PPP in the prompt. I then do a show ipcp and am > advised: > My address: 10.0.1.2/0 > His address: 0.0.0.0/0 > I'm assuming that these IP addresses have something to do > with dynamic IP addressing or something like that. Anyway, > at this point I do: > add 0 0 0.0.0.0 If your ISP uses static IP use the following.. PPP> set ifaddr my.ip.ip.ip gateway.ip.ip.ip 255.255.255.0 ..otherwise, if it's dynamic.. PPP> set ifaddr 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 ^ | If you know your ISP's gateway address replace the second set of IP #'s with it. add 0 0 HISADDR Type that in exactly as shown, ppp will substitute HISADDR for the peer's gateway address. L8rz KrOnUs