From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 18:24:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19498 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:24:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19493 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 18:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04376; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:00:52 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801252200.WAA04376@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Sean Heiney" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:18:50 EST." <002701bd2948$59fd5280$5c9b36d1@sean> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:00:52 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Hello, > =20 > I recentally set up FreeBSD(2.2.5-RELEASE) on my home system. In my = > efforts to set up ppp (dial up/dynamic ip address) I have got pretty = > far. I'm sure I have all my conf files setup correctally. I've double = > checked them. I set up my script to connect to my ISP, and it works. It = > will go into packet mode and successfully connect. At this point, I = > type "shell" in the ppp program after I dialed, to be able to execute = > commands while in the same terminal. As far as I know, when I'm = > connected, FreeBSD doesn't know that I'm connected. When I try to "ping = > rs.internic.net" or any other server, I get an error message along the = > lines of "host not found" or "destination not reachable" or something = > like that. I'm not sure of the exact error message. The point is that I = > can not contact any other hosts while I'm connected. I have my = > nameservers setup right, and my resolv.conf, and every other conf file = > according to the FreeBSD handbook on PPP setup. What are the possible = > causes of this problem? When you type `shell', you suspend ppp execution until you exit the shell. The current ppp warns about this when it spawns the command. You also should make sure that your ``ppp.linkup'' contains the required ``add 0 0 HISADDR''. > Thanks alot, > =20 > > Sean Heiney (sean@owosso.net) Oh, and it's easier for everyone if you post in plain text rather than html :-) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....