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From: "Paul Missman" <missmanp@milo.cfw.com>
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Subject: PPP problem
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Hi,

First off, I'd like to say that freebsd seems to be a very good product. 
The efficiency on CPU utilization seems to be quite good.  I have not had
an opportunity to benchmark it against other systems (like Linux), but it
certainly blows the doors off of Win95.  I used to squeeze realtime
performance out of sub-1-MIPS processors, so I appreciate efficiently
written OSes. :o)

So far I've learned to sysgen ("kernel building" in UNIX vernacular)
freebsd.  Not much different from the minicomputers I used to play with. 
About the only difference is that, in those, you fed the configuration
statements for devices, etc. to a macro assembler, and here it gets done by
the C compiler.  An interesting aside here is that it takes about as long
to build the UNIX kernel on a 200 MIPS machine under C as it took to build
one of those kernels on a 1 MIPS machine with a macro assembler.

Ok, enough rambling.

My freebsd box talks to the ethernet just great, but I've been trying to
get PPP support going in user mode.  Thus far, I've been able to get it to
dial, log on, negotiate a PPP session, get the dynamic IP addresses and put
them in the routing table (netstat shows them assigned to the correct
interface).  However, when I try to ping the any of the machines which
should be on the other end, I get a "no route to host" message. 
Additionally, for each ping, I get the old UNIX message "his magic is bad",
placed into the PPP log.

Any ideas on this one?  I can send a copy of my ppp.config if you need to
see it.

BTW, it is freebsd release 2.2.1, which I downloaded from freebsd.org.

Thanks, and have a good day,

Paul Missman