From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 11:55:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18128 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18123 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00349; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:55:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: James Raynard cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp problem In-Reply-To: <199608031046.KAA04149@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, James Raynard wrote: > > > my ppp.conf: > > > > > > default: > > > set speed 57600 > > > set device /dev/cuaa1 > > > set ifaddr 0 0 > > > > Why do you have this line? I don't and it works fine. Try removing it. > > It's needed if *both* ends have their IP addresses assigned dynamically > (as is the case with one of the ISPs I use). I don't think so. I get a dynamic address, and the gateway address on the other end changes with each dialup (depending on which of the 8 or so terminal servers I get). I works great w/o it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major