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To: Dean <dean@thegrid.net>
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Subject: Re: Getting ppp to find anything 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Folks,
> 	I downloaded FreeBSD from freebst.org about a week ago and it is my first
> real experience with UNIX (I''ve had shell accounts before).  I'm having
> some trouble getting my 'puter connected up to the Internet with ppp.
> Here's what happens:  I open up ppp and tell it to dial my provider (The
> Grid).  It dials and logs in fine.  PPP becomes capatilized and it seems
> that I've negotiated a connection.  But if I try ping or tracertoue,
> nothing comes up.  Traceroute comes back with all *'s, so I don't think it
> is getting an IP or finding the router.  Sometimes when I go back to ppp, I
> get a "select: Bad file descriptor" error and ppp exits.
[.....]

You shouldn't get these errors - what version did you download ?

Try downloading the latest ppp from

  http://www.freebsd.org/~brian

and see if the troubles go away.  If not, take a look at

  http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/userppp.html

and post some more info.

Cheers.
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....