From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 23:24:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3584516A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.eftel.com (sv5.per.eftel.com [203.24.100.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B43443FF3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucen@ansonic.com.au) Received: from localhost.localdomain (dialup-1-232.Warrnambool.dft.com.au [203.123.78.232]) by mail.eftel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7627EBC27D for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:24:15 +0800 (WST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: nevle To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:28:58 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200310071628.58251.brucen@ansonic.com.au> Subject: ppp confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:24:34 -0000 hi, I'm new to BSD and am having trouble configuring my ppp.My ppp.conf file = is=20 the same as the manual accept for: line 7 set login line 15 accept PAP and line 17 set if addr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.255 my ppp.linkup file says MYADDR: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR my hosts file says=20 127.0.0.1 nevsbsd.nevsbsd localhost The lights on my modem go on when I type"ppp -auto myisp" but I don't ge= t PPP=20 ON or any indication that I'm connected. I tried ping -c 210.216.27.18 an= d=20 got "invalid count of packages to transmit".I've read all the instruction= s I=20 could find but each is slightly different and I'm not sure what to do nex= t. Any help or suggestions would be gratefully received thanks in advance=20 neville