From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 30 20:57:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA05949 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ashland.edu (mercury.ashland.edu [198.30.217.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05944 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from warp4.ashland.edu for jroberts@ashland.edu by mercury.ashland.edu (SMI-8.6/1997.05.08.16.36 ) id XAA17709; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 23:57:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:01:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberts To: FreeBSD questions list Subject: FBSD: Dial-out PPP only CONNECTs sometimes? Message-ID: X-X-Sender: jroberts@mail.ashland.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, everyone. I've had about 50% success with my dial-out situation. I've taken the best suggestions from *Pedantic*, various FAQs, the Handbook, and feedback from people on this list. I've been using ppp -auto foo route add default 10.0.1.2 to connect to foo. Sometimes it works without a hitch, and sometimes (like the last couple of days), after connecting, the connection is dropped after about 10 seconds. However, I can still connect from Warp, so I know it's not the remote host. What about this "10.0.1.2"? Could specifying *this* as the default route (my provider dynamically assigns my IP address after connecting) be part of the problem. Is there one that's fail-safe? I just took this, I think, from the Handbook. I was under the impression that the assigned IP address would overwrite the one I specified, or something along those lines. When I do PPP manually, I get "dial OK" and then "switching to packet mode". Then, the connection dies. I'm dialing out of 2.2.1 on a USR Sportster (gasp!) 14400. My machine is not connected to any network. When it works, it works great, BTW. I evidentally just need to find a way to consistently get an acceptable default route. Thanks for any suggestions/advice you can give me! =) I appreciate it. Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ jroberts@ashland.edu >>>> Jeff Roberts <<<< strider@acm.org Public Key = http://www.ashland.edu/~jroberts/txt/pubkey.asc NOTE: I only respond to messages (1) from known senders, (2) with my name in the SUBJECT line, or (3) very specific SUBJECTs. Messages with SUBJECTs like "Hi" or "Question" will get deleted with the spam. Empty SUBJECT lines get ignored. Peace. ______________________________________________________________________