From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 16:50:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA07790 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA07769 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01305; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:45:53 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199709102345.AAA01305@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Allen Louden cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:15:27 EDT." <3.0.32.19970910181525.006b2568@access.mountain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:45:53 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello All > > I am attempting to get ppp working and when I ping my providers primary dns > I get a "no route to host" message. I am using the ppp.conf from the > Pedantic Primer. Any help will be appreciated. You're missing your default route. If you're in term mode, type "add 0 0 HISADDR" after going into packet mode. If you're in -ddial, -auto or -background, put the add line in ppp.linkup. > thanks, > Allen -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....