Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:18:09 -0500 From: "J" <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: "Nils Holland" <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PPP connection to German T-Online Message-ID: <000f01c03491$ee00b560$2a00a8c0@gmttech.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010122227590.164-100000@daniela.ncptiddische.net>
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Is it possible it's just not using papchap and using a plain unix type login where in you have to configure your ppp.conf to look for ogin: and word: ??? Just a random thought? ----- Original Message ----- From: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:42 PM Subject: PPP connection to German T-Online > Hallo folks, > although I have set up user-land ppp for numerous times on several > machines, I encountered a problem today that I feel unable to solve. Let > me explain: > > On one of my machines that previously connected correctly to the Internet, > I changed the configuration to dial into a T-Online (Germany's biggest ISP > who is responsible for the fact that my previous provider went bankrupt, > so I had to switch to them to get an affordable flatrate). That was > simple: I simply changed the phone number, authname and authkey. DONE I > thought - but wrong. > > When I now try to connect (ppp -nat papchap, followed by the dial > command) I GET a connection, but I cannot reach any computer on the > Internet. Only exception: I can ping the nameservers assigned to my by > T-Online. I CANNOT, however, look up names (nslookup > nightcastleproductions.org does not return a reply, even after a few > minutes). I tried to ping other hosts by hostname and IP - but all failed. > > Now I tried to dial in to another different ISP using the same settings as > for my T-Online connection (I only changed the phone number, username and > password) and, THAT WORKS! > > Strange, I thought, so I went over to a buddy who has a Windoze box (I've > installed FreeBSD on all my systems) and tried to establish a standard PPP > connection using the Windoze Dial Up Network (so I didn't install the > special T-Online software - which schouldn't be neccessary, since the > basic dial-in method for T-Online is plain and simple PPP). And what did I > see? It worked under Windows. Searching the web for information I found > out that it also seems to work under Linux - I did not find any > information concering FreeBSD (otherwise I wouldn't ask that question > here). > > So, what's up? Basically, being unable to reach an outside host would > suggest to me that there are problems with the routes. But that cannot be, > because when I simply dial into a different ISP with the same basic > settings in my ppp.conf file I used for T-Online, it works. > > So what else could it be? I don't know! I'd be glad if anyone (most likely > a German subscriber of this mailing list) has some experience with using > FreeBSD and T-Online. If somebody else has ever had similar problems I'd > also be grateful if they would sheare their knowledge with me. > > Thanks in advance, > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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