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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jose Luis Scanferlato <jls@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Troubles with PPP
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On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Jose Luis Scanferlato wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to connect to my ISP using FreeBSD. I've followed all the
> instructions in the handbook & faq and I succeeded -just once- using ppp.
> Then I tried to use pppd. The pppd example in the handbook suggests using
> kermit, but I used chat (why do you suggest using something which is not
> included in the distribution CD?). Anyway, pppd refused to work so I decided
> to go back to ppp, but it does not work anymore :-(
> 
> Using ppp, after dialing I get:
>         Dial OK!
>         Login OK!
>         ppp ON guayaibi> Packet mode

Type 'add 0 0 HISADDR' here.

> But when I try to ping mbox.vol.it, I get something like "no route to host".
> 
> Other error messages:
> - A few minutes after system startup, on the console appears:
>   "Deleting route to interface tun0 (timed out)"
>   Is there something wrong in /etc/sysconfig?  (Yes, it has routedflags=-s)

Disable routed.  It does bad things to the ppp routing.

> Another question: during the only successful connection, I mailed myself a
> test message and it came back with the From: header set to "Charlie Root
> <root@localhost.vol.it>". How do I set sendmail.cf (or whatever) to "My Real
> Name <jlscanf@mbox.vol.it>" and the Reply To field as "jls@acm.org" ?

You can't bother sendmail to do this, you have to modify your mail client.
Pine can do this through the 'customized-headers' option.  I have mine set
to:

Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu

and that does the job.

If you want to get your real name on the mail, write from your own account
and not root's.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major