From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 09:01:18 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 22AE516A4C2 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3C843FDF for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 09:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp104-131.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.104.131])h81G1Eia082698; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:31:14 +0930 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: "Michael Vondung" , Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:31:14 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium> In-Reply-To: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200309020131.14279.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> 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 16:01:18 -0000 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:08, Michael Vondung wrote: > 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\N= 10 > 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 softwa= re > 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 o= f a > Windows XP system (a situation I'm attempting to reverse). Even when th= e > PPP connection is established, "ping", "traceroute", etcetera go via th= e > 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 subjec= t > line, but would you know where I should start looking? > > Thanks! Do you have the line: add default HISADDR in your ppp.conf file -- either default or under the particular connectio= n. You probably have: defaultrouter=3D"XP machines IP address" in /etc/rc.conf although I think this should be overridden when ppp activ= ates. Malcolm