Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 11:54:09 +1000 From: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" <numard@smartmedia.com.ar> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: Richard Savage <r.savage@dial.pipex.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and Message-ID: <35A17FC1.1DC2BE4E@smartmedia.com.ar> References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980706084124.3475A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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> > It sounds like you're not adding any routes when PPP goes up. If you're > using dynamic IP addressing, make sure you have a block in your ppp.linkup > file that looks like: > > provider: > delete ALL > add 0 0 HISADDR > > If you're doing all of this interactively, once you've connected and > entered packet mode, type: > > delete ALL > add 0 0 HISADDR > > At the PPP prompt to get a gateway of last resort (default route) going. > Tehn you should be able to navigate around the Internet just fine. hi! i dunno with FreeBSD, but with linux, one of the params to pppd is "routedefault", that'll make pppd set the default routing and all that stuff. the only thing you have to remember about is (if you have any defaultroute BEFORE connecting to the outsideworld) is to delete this route BEFORE dialing up, becose pppd won't set it up if there's another default route set up. -- Norberto Meijome (a) Numard, (a) Beto | ICQ # 15032073 * Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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