Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:31:14 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Michael Vondung" <michael@vcommunities.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PPP and the backslash-containing AT command in ppp.conf Message-ID: <200309020131.14279.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium> References: <002b01c3709f$0ec29510$0100a8c0@equilibrium>
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:08, 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\N= 10 > 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 softwa= re > 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 o= f a > Windows XP system (a situation I'm attempting to reverse). Even when th= e > PPP connection is established, "ping", "traceroute", etcetera go via th= e > 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 subjec= t > line, but would you know where I should start looking? > > Thanks! Do you have the line: add default HISADDR in your ppp.conf file -- either default or under the particular connectio= n. You probably have: defaultrouter=3D"XP machines IP address" in /etc/rc.conf although I think this should be overridden when ppp activ= ates. Malcolm
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