From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 20:59:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA23883 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Hydro.CAM.ORG (Hydro.CAM.ORG [198.168.100.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23861 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Nimbus.CAM.ORG (Nimbus.CAM.ORG [198.168.100.4]) by Hydro.CAM.ORG (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14096 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DynPPP-23.HIP.CAM.ORG (DynPPP-23.HIP.CAM.ORG [198.168.101.23]) by Nimbus.CAM.ORG (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA26305 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:58:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <323F9E1A.774A@CAM.ORG> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00:42 -0700 From: Oliver Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP connects to ISP...what next !! X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have cnfigured user PPP and am able to connect to my ISP. After ppp has connected, I set up a default route to my ISP viz: add 0 0 mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm (which represents my ISP's IP address) When I try to telnet to my ISP (from a second virtual terminal) I get the essage "Can't find a route to mmm.mmm.mm.mmm (my ISP's IP address). I have the following files set up: /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn my.server.name my mmm.mmm.mmm.mmm isp.server.name isp /etc/gateways host isp gateway my metric 1 passive When my system comes up I can see 'routed' sunning with the -s flag. Have I missed some important step? The anual indicated that you cn run tenet from any other virtual terminal Oliver Wilson owilson@sirn.org