Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:46:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> To: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP connection to German T-Online Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010131628080.160-100000@daniela.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <eec05edc51.edc51eec05@marquette.edu>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > This seems really obvious but did you indent all the lines after > the "default:" statement? I modified the ppp.conf file according to your suggestions (and even beyond them), but yet without success. > Oct 13 06:30:43 tanja ppp[1122]: tun0: IPCP: myaddr 62.158.151.61 > hisaddr = 193.158.144.93 > > Does myaddr look anything like you get when you login from a windoze > box? Also if you run a tracert under win is that the next jump you get > after your own? I did some additional research at that point. Let me tell you all I know: First of all, myaddr and hisaddr match the addresses that I'm assigned when dialing in via Windoze (hisaddr matches in full, myaddr is about the same, since it is dynamically assigned, as you know). The first strange thing I noticed on the Windoze NT box I used at my buddy's house is the following: When I enter "ipconfig" on Windoze my IP address seems to be the same as the default gateway address. I don't know if that's strange or not, I just know that when I look at the RAS monitor under NT that shows the connection details the IP dynamically assigned to me is about the same as myaddr on FreeBSD, and the address of the "Remote Server" is just the same as hisaddr. Now the second (and probably more interesting) strange thing: I did a traceroute on Windoze and the first hop behind me was always hisaddr. The address behind hisaddr also seemed to be the same, so that it looked about like that: 1. 193.158.144.93 (=hisaddr) 2. 193.158.138.166 Ok. Now I wanted to try something: I read somewhere on the web that T-Online's own machines don't respond to pings. So I tried to ping 193.158.144.93 (hisaddr) and I got a message saying "Destination network unreachable". Let me add, though, that pinging other addresses (for example nightcastleproductions.org, or its IP 63.73.49.39) works correctly. Also, pinging the first IP that comes after hisaddr in the traceroute works (ping 193.158.138.166). So far about Windoze. Now I returned to my own FreeBSD box and I tried some very similar stuff. On FreeBSD, I also cannot ping hisaddr (just as on Windoze). I can, however, also just as under Windoze, ping the first address behind hisaddr (193.158.138.166). So far it seems to be the same under Windoze and FreeBSD. The only difference is that while I can ping other hosts on Windoze, that is not possible under FreeBSD (so ping nightcastleproductions.org or ping 63.73.49.39 fails). That's all I have observed until now. I don't have a clue what it means, though. The only thing I can imagine is that the T-Online systems must be strange. As I said, they really seem not to reply to pings, and I wonder if that could be somehow related to the problem. I don't know, however, why Windoze works then, even though it also doesn't get ping responses from the T-Online systems. Well, now I've told a whole lot of stuff. Hopefully this will be enough for someone to have an idea that solves the problem. I'm currently really angry with the folks at T-Online. They are responsible for all the other German flatrate-ISPs going bankrupt, so if one wants a flatrate connection, T-Online is the only choice. And then it doesn't even work if you use a *real* operating system and no such shit as Windoze... See ya, Nils ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> NightCastle Productions * http://www.nightcastleproductions.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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