Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:44:09 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Michael Vondung <michael@vcommunities.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf Message-ID: <20030901154409.GC18845@webserver> In-Reply-To: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium> References: <200309012316.25143.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium>
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:38:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michael Vondung wrote: > Malcolm wrote: > > > Sould work if you use '\\\\', that is: AT&F\\\\N9 > > which the first interpretation reduces to: AT&F\\N9 > > Thank you! This worked indeed. After an hour of frustrating fiddling I also > figured out that the string I needed for this particular ISP was AT&F\N10 > rather than AT&F\N9 -- and yet another hour later I managed to figure out > that my user name needed to be in a different format (very cryptic and well > hidden on the ISP's pages) than the one used in the ISP's dialer software > for Windows. (User PPP is almost too verbose.) > > So, PPP now connects just fine. The only problem is that FreeBSD doesn't > recognise this connection as its primary connection to the Internet. Up > until this point, the FreeBSD box used the shared Internet connection of a > Windows XP system (a situation I'm attempting to reverse). Even when the PPP > connection is established, "ping", "traceroute", etcetera go via the LAN to > the XP box ... and time out because the XP machine doesn't have an active > connection to the Internet. Probably off topic under this subject line, but > would you know where I should start looking? route(8) and netstat -rn Ask your ISP what to set your default route to, then set it in /etc/rc.conf (defaultrouter) and reboot. (You don't have to reboot, but that makes it easier). -- Josh > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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