Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:23:56 -0600 From: "Ladd J Epp" <lje4q@bethelks.edu> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FOLLOW-UP: PPP Routing Question Message-ID: <002701be6924$c04a8180$faa3f8c6@landru>
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Hello Everyone, Below is a copy of a message that I dropped into the group several weeks ago concerning ppp and pppd. It turns out that it *might* be an issue with a very select few Sportster modems, presumably modems that were manufactured around the same time (after I swapped modems with an older Sportster 14.4 everything ran beautifully). Again, I would invite anyone who has knowledge about this problem to step forward and share it with all of us. Thank You, ~Ladd Epp -----Original Message----- From: Ladd J Epp <lje4q@bethelks.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 3:37 PM Subject: PPP Routing Question I was wondering if someone could help me solve a little puzzle that has plagued me during my entire Unix/Linux experience. In short, I have never been able to get PPP to route. Ever. Tell me what I'm doing wrong. In FreeBSD it seems easy enough to me. I start by typing: ppp ... and then I go into terminal mode to connect to the terminal server. I dial in, authorize myself, and then start the PPP session. 'ppp' detects this and takes over. So far so good. Now I type (within 'ppp'): add default HISADDR And now everything should route and be running great, right? Well, not exactly. I am unable to ping any address outside of my computer. The packets go out but they never return (I can verify this by looking at my modem lights). The odd thing is that I can FTP anywhere in the world and everything works fine for about a minute or so... and then FTP locks up and I can't do anything. Has anyone seen this happen before? It's not OS specific (as far as flavors of Unix or Linux) because I've had the same problems in Debian (which I have long since blown away for this very reason). I would love to get my hands dirty with FreeBSD but I can't do much without some type of network connection. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, ~Ladd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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