From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 14:37:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04333 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:37:33 -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 OAA04300 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:37:25 -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 WAA16442; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:29:22 +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 WAA24491; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:29:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810102129.WAA24491@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: francisco@natserv.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp auto not dialing In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:09:22 -0000." <199810100408.AAA20091@federation.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:29:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 , , 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