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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:30:20 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User PPP, problem with modem password on dial-up 
Message-ID:  <199803182330.XAA11698@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:51:55 GMT." <350FA74A.40CBD26C@uk.radan.com> 

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> Can anyone help me with a couple of problems I'm having with User PPP?.
> I set it up to dial into my ISP (the instructions in the FreeBSD
> handbook are first-class BTW, I followed them from start to finish,
> rebooted and dialled in first time - well done whoever wrote them ), and
> it all works OK apart from one small problem, which is annoying more
> than anything else.
> 
> 	When a connection is made I get the prompt "ppp on marder-1" (lower
> case 'ppp'), eventually this changes to "PPP on marder-1" (upper case
> 'PPP') which, if I understand it correctly means that I am now logged
> into the network. However I still get "host has no DNS entry" when I try
> to access a Web page and "no route to server" if I ping the ISP's
> nameserver. But, if I type "add HISADDR 0 0" at the ppp prompt
> everything works OK. The entry in my ppp.conf is as per the example in
> the handbook (except for the phone no. etc.) which includes the 'add...'
> string. It would appear that it is necessary to wait before sending this
> string, but I can't work out how to do this in the ppp.conf entry. Any
> ideas?

Check out the man page.  You need a ppp.linkup file with the `add'.

> 	My second problem is that I need to dial into the network at work. The
> modem I dial into (USR Courier v.34) has the password set on it but I
> never get to see the password prompt. In Windoze NT4 I simply cloned the
> phonebook entry for my ISP, changed the phone no. and added the option
> to pop-up a terminal window after dialling. The modems' password prompt
> appears in this window, enter the password, dismiss the terminal window
> and NT logs me into the network. How do I get to enter the modem
> password using FreeBSD's user PPP?

Use the `term' command to figure out how to get past the login: and 
password: prompts, then try enabling `chat' logging to ensure that 
your chat script is doing the same thing.

> 	Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Ovens                  *====================================*
> CNC Apps Engineer           | One of the main causes of the fall |
> Radan Computational Ltd     | of the Roman Empire was, that      |
> mailto:marko@uk.radan.com   | lacking a zero, they had no way of |
>                             | indicating the successful          |
>                             | termination of their C programs    |
>                             *====================================*


-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....



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