Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:18:26 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) To: owilson@CAM.ORG (Oliver Wilson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP connects to ISP...what next !! Message-ID: <199609180618.AA00452@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <323F9E1A.774A@CAM.ORG> from "Oliver Wilson" at Sep 18, 96 00:00:42 am
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Oliver Wilson wrote / a ecrit: > > 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 You did miss an important step: provide us will all the needed information. The results of: ifconfig -a netstat -r and more complete information about your setup of PPP. It seems that there is no (correct?) route set up to the ppp0 interface. When using the kernel-based ppp implementation, this should be done automatically when the interface is brought up, so I wonder if the address and netmask the ppp0 interface gets correspond with that of your ISP. _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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