Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:53:22 -0800 From: Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com> To: hooptie@shazzam.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulling my hair out! Message-ID: <32FFB4F2.167EB0E7@progroup.com> References: <32FFAC5D.1A87@shazzam.com>
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hooptie wrote: > > I am having problems with both PPP and PPPD in FreeBSD 2.1.6, and am > totally lost. I have researched the man pages, followed the tutorial on > www.freebsd.org/tutorial/ppp, been helped by people in #freebsd on IRC, > and even talked to tech-supt at cdrom.com to no avail. > Have you looked at the ascii version of the handbook on your fbsd system? hint: /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.ascii Lots of good stuff in there. > For PPP: > > I setup /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, ppp.linkup, ppp.secret, and /etc/resolv.conf > with the correct information. I go into PPP, and start the term -- I > can log in fine, and the PPP session starts. Netstat -rn returns that a > defaultroute HAS BEEN ADDED. Unfortunately, no outside systems are > reachable, and I can't even ping localhost anymore. Without PPP > running, pinging localhost works just fine. > > For PPPD: > > I setup /root/pap with my username and password, /etc/ppp/options for > the PPPD options, and /etc/ppp/connect for chat. PPPD will dial and and > the modem will connect; however, I get the ambiguous error "cannot setup > a connection". I've tried +ua to get it to login PAP, and get the same > error. I have modified that chat file (/etc/ppp/connect) and tried > every possible login combination, and have yet to succeed. To make > matters worse, -d and debug don't seem to work -- the only output to > /var/log/messages is "cannot setup a connection". > > Now, after three headache-ridden days of utter frustration, I am nearly > bald. Does anyone have ANY ideas what could possibly be going wrong?? Sounds like a routing problem, dns, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf Can you send some copies of your files? I* use kernel ppp, not user level ppp. Have you recompiled the kernel and left out ppp? -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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