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From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET)
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Subject: Re: PPP connects to ISP...what next !!
To: owilson@CAM.ORG (Oliver Wilson)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:18:26 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
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_
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