Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:29:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: francisco@natserv.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp auto not dialing Message-ID: <199810102129.WAA24491@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:09:22 -0000." <199810100408.AAA20091@federation.addy.com>
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> Paraphrasing the man page for ppp... -auto will wait for a > ppp packet to be sent and then dial... > > I run "ppp -auto my-isp" > ppp becomes a daemon. I try a few programs which I believe would send > packets, (netscape, fetchmail,ping) but ppp never dials. > > If I go into ppp using pppctl and type "dial" it dials my-isp ok. > > What I missing? A default route ? Have you read http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html ? > ---- > francisco@natserv.com > The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; 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
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