Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:54:11 +0200 From: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Raymond Pert <rpert@ji-net.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP what next! Message-ID: <20010923025411.A23038@athalon> In-Reply-To: <20010919072741.U84181-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> References: <OFECIFEDNCIIEMJFEINIEEINCNAA.rpert@ji-net.com> <20010919072741.U84181-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
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--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 at 07:32:15 -0400, Dru wrote: > If your prompt changes to all caps or PPP, you're connected. You've > also lost that prompt for the duration of your connection, so open up > another terminal using your ALT Function keys. Running a trace route > or a ping to a URL is a good connection test. When you're finished, > return to the terminal with the PPP prompt and type the word by. The prompt isn't necessarily lost. You can press <Ctrl-Z> to suspend PPP and return to your prompt, then immediately type `bg' to let it continue executing in the background. To shut it down again, type `fg' to bring it into the foreground, then `close' to close the connection. --=20 Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> Today's subliminal thought is: --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE7rTKzzRUP82sZFCcRAjGaAJ9rGqb3yh9z4UsLynWAh3MXx0C0hACfWzRk 9hUyxyL28WG19+jfqn0caR0= =lfAn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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