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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:33:22 -0600
From:      "Ladd J Epp" <ladd@bethelks.edu>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Answer to a PPP Routing Question
Message-ID:  <00c301be754a$e146dd20$faa3f8c6@landru>

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After doing some rather exhaustive research, I discovered that the modem
problem was simply a initialization string problem.  So, if anyone E-mails
with the same problem, tell them to try the following init string:

AT&F1

That should clear up any problems.

Thanks for everyone's help,
~Ladd


-----Original Message-----
From: Ladd J Epp <lje4q@bethelks.edu>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 3:41 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



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