Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 15:24:51 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Michael Bailey" <cometman_98@yahoo.com> Cc: "newbies@freebsd.org" <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPP: what next??? Message-ID: <199808061902.PAA09509@emi.net>
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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
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