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From: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline)
Subject: Re: User PPP
To: clad@oz.net (Dan mackey)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 12:48:15 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <30DA4DF9.21EF@oz.net> from "Dan mackey" at Dec 21, 95 10:19:37 pm
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According to Dan mackey:
> 
> I recently installed Freebsd 2.1 and have been tryint to get ppp 
> working for the last week. I followed all the instructions in the 
> freebsd handbook under uppp and am still haveing problems. I can get it 
> to dial and login ok but when i try to ping ftp or use anyother program 
> it ether sits there for 5 minutes and times out or says host lookup 
> failer. Can anyone help ?
> 
	
	After several hours of having similar problems, I
	found that in my case, the ``ifconfig MY_IP REMOTE_IP''
	had the wrong `REMOTE_IP'.   (I was connecting to the
	Portmaster at work rather than the machine that I 
	needed to be hooked up with, `tera.com', and after I
	changed IP's, ppp began to work.

	Also note that you must have correct entries in your
	/etc/hosts file.

	Let me know if this helps.

-- 
  Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public access uNix