From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 00:26:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA18252 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail0.iij.ad.jp (root@mail0.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.61]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA18246 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 00:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uucp1.iij.ad.jp (uucp1.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.73]) by mail0.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-MAIL) with ESMTP id QAA16549; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:25:54 +0900 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uucp1.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-UUCP) with UUCP id QAA00482; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:25:54 +0900 Received: from xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp by yyy.kgc.co.jp (8.7.5/3.4W:95122611) id QAA11016; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:21:40 +0900 (JST) Received: by xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp (8.6.12/3.3W8:95062916) id QAA28042; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:21:40 +0900 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 16:21:40 +0900 From: Toshihiro Kanda Message-Id: <199605090721.QAA28042@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> To: John Utz Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Subject: Re: ppp -auto and network apps, does it work? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > final question; i have created a successfull entry in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf > that will get me logged in and ppp'd up when i invoke it as ppp uw. > However, if i try ppp -auto uw ( uw is the configuration name ) then > telnet or ftp fail with a "no route to host". So evidently, the magic that > is supposed to dial ppp is not working. Has anybody gotten this to work? Entries for auto mode should have: set ifaddr For dynamically assignment for local IP address, specify: set ifaddr 0 Please refer `on demand example' of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sampe candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)