From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 00:53:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA23699 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA23694 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA22713; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:54:04 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA24637; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:04:13 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199611190904.KAA24637@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: iijppp - cannot ping host after connect In-Reply-To: <199611190537.VAA20100@zen1.lanzen.net> from Robert Burns at "Nov 18, 96 09:39:47 pm" To: rjburns@lanzen.net (Robert Burns) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:04:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have managed to manually connect to my host with iijppp on 2.1, I know > I'm connected from netstat output, both route and interface entries. My > host uses PAP & dynamic ip's so I am unable to run "ifconfig tun0 inet > my_ip my_host netmask 0xffffff00" in /etc/netstart Is this required under > these circumstances or does iij set up the interface upon successful > negociation. > > Also I don't have a lan connection so the only ifconfig entry I have is for > the loopback. > And, I don't run routed or gated. > > When I try and ping 205.205.70.175 (my host) nothing happens. It seems > this is pretty straight forward, at least it was the last time I had FBSD > 2.01 installed on my system Do you have an (in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf): your-link: set openmode active And in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup: your-link: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR > > Also I've assigned myself an ip of 10.0.0.1 and I can't even ping myself. > I guess not if no interfaces are configured??? > > **************************************************************** > Robert Burns > rjburns@lanzen.net > Mtl.,Canada > **************************************************************** > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de