From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 21 18:47:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25195 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25188 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA07620; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:47:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:47:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Sara Gronim cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP conections In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Sara Gronim wrote: > Hi people, great to be back on this list. > > I recently aquired a PPP account with Digital Telemedia > Incorporated. I set it up for my Windows 95 box, it took about three > minutes, thats wonderful. What I really want PPP for is FreeBSD. > I followed the instructions in the handbook on creating ppp.conf and > ppp.linkup. Apparently they do not give me a static ip address. I have > attempted several times to correct the "ifaddr" line in ppp.conf to work. > it errors with "system not in configuration file." is this a problem with > /etc/hosts? ppp.conf? could you people please send me some help! maybe > examples? Thank you very much, I have appreciated your help in the past. Here's what you want: (from ppp.linkup) # Otherwise, simply add peer as default gateway. # MYADDR: add 0 0 HISADDR > > -Sgronim@panix.com (soon to be sporkl@dti.net) > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*