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From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au>
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Thanks again, this fixed it straight away.

Andrew Perry
andrew@shoal.net.au

Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Andrew Perry wrote:
> 
> > i've managed to get iijppp  (user ppp) working after a fashion, however
> > if for any reason the line drops out and i dial again, i get a
> > connection ok, ppp changes to PPP, but i get an error
> > SIOCAIFADDR: file exists, and i can't ping or telnet from another
> > session. Any clues?
> 
> Don't ifconfig tun0 in sysconfig.  ppp will do it for you.
> 
> > also what web browsers do people use from XFree86? i've installed mosaic
> > but would like netscape, however i'm having a few problems. i downloaded
> > the port, did make GOLD=yes and it downloaded for ages and then said
> > invalid checksum and wouldn't actually install it. is there a better way
> > of getting netscape (ie: is there a package anywhere i can grab?)
> 
> Netscape. Just download the i386-unknown-bsd directly from them, and
> extract in /usr/X11R6/bin.  It comes prebuilt.  This is the standard
> version, I can't say for gold.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major