From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 04:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA11264 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA11252 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id WAA16549; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:24 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199611251223.WAA16549@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: SimsS@Infi.Net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iijppp - cannot ping host after connect X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199611202032.UAA49598@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> you wrote: : The handbook section and FAQ are very dicey regarding iij-ppp; the source : remains my most valuable reference. While the published documents are nice : from a casual users' perspective, (and, in fact, do a nice job of getting : newbies up and connected) they seem to come up somewhere short of : 'definitive' for more sophisticated roles such as the application I have: : running dynamic dial-out in a static-routed, high-availability, : multi-interface role. (Then I complicate it by using RFC-1597 addresses on : the local net side.) The documentation for iijppp is around somewhere translated from the Japanese. Search through the mailing lists and see if you can dig it up. It describes things a little better, including things like using PPP over TCP or TELNET connections etc :) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!