From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 10:56:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02525 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limbo.senate.org (Nyack-38.qed.net [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02511 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by limbo.senate.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA10576; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:53:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman Message-Id: <199707291753.NAA10576@limbo.senate.org> Subject: Re: ppp In-Reply-To: <33DD6F05.78CF@psu.edu> from Brian Freeman at "Jul 29, 97 00:18:13 am" To: bef126@psu.edu Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:53:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk PPP ON yourhost> add 0 0 HISADDR This will add a default route for your ISP. Look into pppd as well. > I am trying to establish a PPP connection so I can use my netscape > broswer. Using the PPP program that came with my distribution (FreeBSD > 2.2), I establish a connection (I assume the connection is established > because the ppp turns from lower case into upper case ppp -> PPP and I > am assigned an IP address). I then load netscape. Every time I type in > a URL I get the message "Server doesn't have a DNS entry . . ." so I > know it is not connecting to the internet. Then after about 5 minutes > the connection breaks and the error log says "Too many packets lost". I > know using netscape with Windows that I had to use an internet socket > program "Winsock" and was wondering do I need something like this for > UNIX? Or else is there something I'm doing wrong or forgot to do? > > Any comments or suggestions would be appriciated. > > Thank you, > Brian > bef126@psu.edu >