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Date:      Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:34:59 +1000
From:      Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au>
To:        Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Cc:        questions freebsd <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ppp route table
Message-ID:  <32D38663.78E8@shoal.net.au>
References:  <Pine.A32.3.91.970107143807.71930A-100000@holly.ColoState.EDU>

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After you successfully connect does ppp change to PPP? if so try typing:
add 0 0 HISADDR 
and see if it works after that. (i'll post this to the list as well so someone can 
correct me if i'm wrong!)

andrew perry
andrew@shoal.net.au

Gerard Giamberdine wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Having user ppp difficulties... I've gotten to the point where I can type
> 'dial provider' in ppp and it connects fine. However when I shell out and
> try telnet ... or ftp ..., it just hangs. I'm pretty sure the problem lies
> in the route table, but am not entirely sure what it's values should be.
> My ISP assigns me an IP each time, and I think itself a dynamic one too.
> I'm a little confused on that since it seems like a dynamic IP on its
> side isn't needed? Anyhow, I've been using my ISP's default gateway -
> 129.82.192.1 when assigning IPs, and this is the route table I get:
> 
> default         129.82.192.1    UGc     0       0       tun0
> 127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       UH      1       10      lo0
> 129.82.192.1    129.82.192.96   UH      1       0       tun0
>                 (my dyn IP)
> 
> So my ultimate question is - is this what I want? Or should the
> addresses on the left end in .0? I've tried using the ISP's dynamic
> IP in place of 129.82.192.1 but with the same results. Any help
> will greatly help my sanity.
> 
> Gerard



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