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To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Dial-Up PPP 
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:53:33 -0400
From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net>
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>  On Mon, 26 May 1997, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
>  
>  > Can anyone point me toward documentation on interactive dial-up PPP that works 
>  > for FreeBSD 2.1.5? I never have gotten it to work, and I can't yet afford to 
>  > purchase the CD-ROMs. (I noticed this weekend that the FreeBSD PPP 
>  > documentation at FreeBSD.org is for 2.2 and up....)
>  > 
>  
>  I'll and do other than RTFM :-)
>  
>  I'm running 2.2.1, but this configuration has worked for me since
>  2.1.6. 
>  
>  Let me know how you make out.
>  

Thank you, Kevin.

I am almost there! PPP dials out, logs in, and the lower-case ppp turns into upper-case PPP. What next? I have tried keying in "shell" at the prompt--is this correct? (I am doing this from the shell, I haven't gotten X working again yet.) I got a terminal, as I expected, but when I tried lynx, ftp, and ping, only ping worked.

Oh, by the way, the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf script didn't dial out until I commented out the line "net:". The modem clicked to attention, but it then didn't know what to do. Hmm.

Thanks again for your help.
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Chris Booth
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