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Date:      18 Oct 1999 03:21:31 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP masquerading
Message-ID:  <8690511ptg.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: Charlie &'s message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 19:38:44 -0700"
References:  <99101619590100.00738@builtcomp.shred>

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Charlie & <leon1@gte.net> writes:

> hello, I was trying to have my FreeBSD machine to be a gateway to the internet.
> I did all the instructions in the FreBSD tutorial and successfully connected to
> the internet my LAN was able the Internet too. But around 5 minutes that I'm
> connected, I got disconnected automatically. I'm using ppp interactive. I'm

Are you using the -auto option to ppp, or the -ddial one?  When I used

	% ppp -auto my_isp

to connect to the net, it waited until some program tried to connect to the
network before the link came up.

Can you be more specific, like posting your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf so that we do
not try guessing what's wrong?

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400]


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