Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:49:58 -0700
From:      "Alex Davidson" <alexd@idcomm.com>
To:        "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, "FreeBSD Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: How to test my ISP connection
Message-ID:  <000201be05f2$5574e020$0100a8c0@pony-pii-450>
In-Reply-To: <199811012106.QAA06858@laker.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
1. ppp
2. load isp
3. dial
or
2. dial isp

Modem is on com 2

I have looked at the awfulhawk.org web site and since then have messed with
all kinds of files, adding entries and stuff, I even added some SLIP stuff
and name Server entries (which I don't need as yet but aren't gonna hurt I
hope).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Friedrich [mailto:SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 1998 2:04 PM
> To: Alex Davidson; FreeBSD Newbies; FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: RE: How to test my ISP connection
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:20:26 -0700, Alex Davidson wrote:
>
> >I now have a ppp.linkup with the following section:
> >
> >isp:
> > delete ALL
> > add 0 0 HISADDR
> > !bg /etc/ppp/ppp/etherup.isp
> >
> >Still nothing.
>
> How are you invoking ppp.  You're not using pppd, I hope!
> I think you're using ppp -auto -alias isp
>
> Your log indicated that CHAP authentication wasn't happening.  If you
> have the appropriate entries in ppp.conf for CHAP, and you using the
> correct modem port...
>
> What port is your modem on??  I was pretty sure we got past this part
> because your log indicated that you were simply denied CHAP.  Brian
> Somers, I believe, maintains the ppp code and he's got a site, I think
> it's www.awfulhak.org
>
> See http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html
> Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.
>
>


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?000201be05f2$5574e020$0100a8c0>