From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 17:09:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09977 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:09:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09968 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04666; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:09:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA04602; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:09:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810120009.BAA04602@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: francisco@natserv.com cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp auto not dialing In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:49:38 -0000." <199810110249.WAA20781@federation.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:09:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On 10-Oct-98 Brian Somers wrote: > >> I run "ppp -auto my-isp" > >> .... but ppp never dials. > > > A default route ? > > That was the problem. Thanks. > > Went back to the man page. Tried to find where it indicaded a default > route was needed for auto. I didn't see it. Did I miss it? It's probably documented better in the current ppp docs (there's a pointer on http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html) under the CONNECTING WITH YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER section. > ---- > francisco@natserv.com > The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message