Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 22:44:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Dial-Up PPP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970527222936.250F-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <199705280453.AAA00762@ithaca>
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Christopher J. Booth wrote: > > 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, As far as I know this feature (shell) does not work, it probably is for future feature implementation. I simply go to a different virtual terminal to do my choice of action. I'm sure I seen this in the archives somewhere. > 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. > The "net:" allows you to `dial net' at the PPP ON > prompt to initiate dial. See Re:[FWD]FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Dial-Up PPP This allows you the option of more than one provider in your ppp.conf. > Thanks again for your help. _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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