Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 02:30:46 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Sara Gronim <sgronim@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP conections Message-ID: <199710220130.CAA25789@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:40:26 EDT." <Pine.SUN.3.94.971021203536.11097A-100000@panix.com>
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> Hi people, great to be back on this list. > > I recently aquired a PPP account with Digital Telemedia > Incorporated. I set it up for my Windows 95 box, it took about three > minutes, thats wonderful. What I really want PPP for is FreeBSD. > I followed the instructions in the handbook on creating ppp.conf and > ppp.linkup. Apparently they do not give me a static ip address. I have > attempted several times to correct the "ifaddr" line in ppp.conf to work. > it errors with "system not in configuration file." is this a problem with > /etc/hosts? ppp.conf? could you people please send me some help! maybe > examples? Thank you very much, I have appreciated your help in the past. There are links to all of the ppp docs from http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html If you mean "Destination system not found in conf file", it means that the destination system (that you specified on the command line or in the config file) is not in the config file (/etc/ppp/ppp.conf). > -Sgronim@panix.com (soon to be sporkl@dti.net) > > -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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