From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 16:03:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05635 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:03:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05623 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:02:47 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24090; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:26:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804162226.XAA24090@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Doug White cc: lindsay evenson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial up In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:39:27 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:26:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, lindsay evenson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble dialing up to the internet with my freeBSD box. > > I am using user ppp and have FreeBSD 2.2.2 . I get the modem to dial, and it > > runs through the scrips I made. It logs in to my ISP, but when I shell out, > > i am not able to ping any IP addresses, and I can not ping any Names like > > www.microsoft.com . > > When you say `shell out', what exactly are you doing? > > You should hop over to a different console (using alt-f?) and work from > there. Suspending ppp suspends the connection too. [.....] It may be of interest... with the MP branch, we can now ^Z then ``bg'' ppp :-) The -current & -stable branches of ppp now warn that you're suspending ppp operations when you ``shell'', but the 2.2.2 version did not :-( -- 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