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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 1998 00:11:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Lanny Baron <beef@tht.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't get a PPP connection with 2.2.6..(boot.flp)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408001004.27673L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <352B1C69.EC5A1067@tht.net>

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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Lanny Baron wrote:

>     I have upgraded to 2.2.6 and had to rm * the entire disk as the
> cvsupit caused /usr to go to 108%. But then that may be my problem for
> not knowing all the ins and outs of upgrading.

Hm, tried to download the source without enough space, eh?  :-)  All you
had to do was rm -rf /usr/src to get back to normal, then boot the 2.2.6
boot floppy & select `upgrade'.

>     To the problem at hand. I did have a running 2.2.5 which I received
> via ftp. I have had no problems with ppp after reading the handbook and
> some other sources from FreeBSD. With 2.2.6 this seems to have changed.
> I can't get a PPP connection but get a ppp connection which is obviously
> useless. I have not changed ISP's nor have I changed what I put in for
> the settings for ppp. I have tried using 10.0.0.1/0 as my IP address
> along with 0 as the ISP's address.

Hm, from the 2.2.6 boot.flp we can't enable the abuse amounts of logging
necessary to figure out what's going on.  Perhaps you could download the
dists to the 2.2.5 box and set it up as a FTP server?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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