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add & change ( \/  gateway  &  \/ this to your IP address) to ppp.conf...

 set ifaddr 29.60.64.1/0 29.60.64.59/0 255.255.255.0
 add 0 0 29.60.64.59  

	       /\ set this to your IP address...

There are a bunch of examples in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample 


Hope this helps..



At 04:03 AM 11/19/97 -0600, George Vagner wrote:
>yesturday i have had problems making some connections thru my freebsd box
>from my NT machine.
>
>I have freebsd 2.2.5-r and invoke ppp -alias interactive and then proceed to
>connect to my provider all ok, i can browse internet from the freebsd box
>just fine but when trying from my other machine which runs NT 4.0 only
>about 50 % of the sites i can access, i get an error saying the server
>is not available.
>
>I used to be able to do it just fine but i changed some of my settings in
>the default dns server and now it dont work half the time.
>
>for the default server i put in the ip addresses of the nt machine the
freebsd
>machine and the ip for the dns server on my providers side. is this correct?
>
>i tried just putting in the dns for just my provider and i get nothing at
all.
>
>I dont know too much about networking and need some suggestions on how to
about
>setting up NT to use the freebsd box to get to my provider.
>
>mail doesnt work eithier but it used to?
>
>
>-- 
>
>
>Laszlo G. Vagner
>Texas Instruments
>13570 N. Central expressway M/S 3703
>Dallas, Texas 75243
>(972)995-4297
>(972)598-5217 Pager
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>
>
>