From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 21 12:39:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18755 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18735; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-112.laker.net [208.0.233.12]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id PAA09401; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:38:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199811212038.PAA09401@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Alex Davidson" , "FreeBSD Newbies" , "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:33:19 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: How to test my ISP connection Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:20:26 -0700, Alex Davidson wrote: >I now have a ppp.linkup with the following section: > >isp: > delete ALL > add 0 0 HISADDR > !bg /etc/ppp/ppp/etherup.isp > >Still nothing. Once it appears to connect, try: ping 204.146.18.33 That's www.ibm.com If the ping works, your connection is up. Then try: ping www.ibm.com This will probably fail because you probably don't have your ISPs nameserver listed in /etc/resolv.conf see man resolv.conf Let us know how it goes... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message