From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 6 12:24:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07464 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emi.net (emi.net [208.10.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07366 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com) Received: from nt (tc1-42.emi.net [208.10.129.58]) by emi.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA09509; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:02:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199808061902.PAA09509@emi.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Michael Bailey" Cc: "newbies@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 15:24:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PPP: what next??? Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:56:44 -0700 (PDT), Michael Bailey wrote: >digression (I can access the modem & make it >dial: that took about a year. (thank goodness for the day job) I can >call the ISP and login. Once I even got a response that seemed to >indicate ppp was working. But then, are you supposed to be able to >fire up Lynx on another terminal? I tried and Lynx didn't seem to >know there was an internet connection open. The FAQs and the Handbook >and the man all kind of stop when ppp is connected, so it must be >obvious to most people.) >end digression After you have established a PPP connection, your PPP prompt will change from a lowercase ppp to uppercase PPP, if you're using it interactively. If you invoked it in auto mode "ppp -auto ISP" where ISP is the label you used in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, you won't see that prompt. In either case, go to another virtual terminal (Alt-Fn, usually F1,F2, or F3) and try to ping a host, such as 204.146.15.5 If the ping packets come back, then you have in fact established a connection to the Internet thru your ISP. If not, then we need to troubleshoot your ppp config files. After successfully ping a host on the Internet with an IP address, try to use a hostname, such as www.ibm.net If it comes back saying it doesn't know who www.ibm.net is, you need to add a nameserver entry to /etc/resolv.conf (this is the FreeBSD filename, other operating systems use similiar names). Ask your ISP what nameserver you should use when connected to them. Any more questions ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message