From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 4 21:39:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA18846 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 21:39:01 -0700 Received: from praline.no.NeoSoft.com (root@praline.no.NeoSoft.COM [206.27.160.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA18836 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 21:38:54 -0700 Received: from gumbo-ppp-e2.no.NeoSoft.com (gumbo-ppp-e2.no.NeoSoft.com [206.27.165.166]) by praline.no.NeoSoft.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id XAA16074 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:38:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:38:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199510050438.XAA16074@praline.no.NeoSoft.com> X-Sender: seiffert@praline.no.neosoft.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: seiffert@neosoft.com (Mark Seiffert) Subject: PPP setup with dynamic IP Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to get the PPP connection to my up-stream ISP setup correctly and I am having problems. I am running FreeBSD 2.0.5 from the Walnut Creek CD on a 486 with 16MB RAM and a 1G hard drive. I have read the html handbook pages and have PPP working to the point where I can run ppp and dial the ISP. After the connect is made I have to manually type `add 0 0 HISADDR' into the ppp program in order to get things working. I think I understand that this entry is supposed to be in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup in the form of ; X.X.X.X.: add 0 0 HISADDR Since I am using a dyniamic PPP address I do not know what to replace the Xs with. I have tried `0.0.0.0:' and even `0:' but neither work. What do I need to do? Next question is data compression (predicitive compression?) enabled the default. I have seen mention of disabling and denying compression and I am not too happy with the transfer rates. Do I need to add anything to the ppp.conf file to enable compression? Regards, Mark Seiffert