From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 08:38:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8F016A4BF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net (mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net [69.12.112.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D808443FEC for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@vcommunities.net) Received: (qmail 37599 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2003 15:38:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO equilibrium) (mvondung@vcommunities.net@62.158.60.103) by mail-da-2.dns-solutions.net - 62.158.60.103 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2003 15:38:14 -0000 From: "Michael Vondung" To: "'Malcolm Kay'" , Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:38:10 +0200 Message-ID: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <200309012316.25143.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:38:16 -0000 Malcolm wrote: > Sould work if you use '\\\\', that is: AT&F\\\\N9 > which the first interpretation reduces to: AT&F\\N9 Thank you! This worked indeed. After an hour of frustrating fiddling I = also figured out that the string I needed for this particular ISP was = AT&F\N10 rather than AT&F\N9 -- and yet another hour later I managed to figure = out that my user name needed to be in a different format (very cryptic and = well hidden on the ISP's pages) than the one used in the ISP's dialer = software for Windows. (User PPP is almost too verbose.) So, PPP now connects just fine. The only problem is that FreeBSD doesn't recognise this connection as its primary connection to the Internet. Up until this point, the FreeBSD box used the shared Internet connection of = a Windows XP system (a situation I'm attempting to reverse). Even when the = PPP connection is established, "ping", "traceroute", etcetera go via the LAN = to the XP box ... and time out because the XP machine doesn't have an = active connection to the Internet. Probably off topic under this subject line, = but would you know where I should start looking? Thanks!