From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 18:51:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09664 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09652; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00126; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:51:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: gibson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199802092302.SAA32605@telplus-pub.affiliate.nortel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, gibson wrote: > I have a question concerning a ppp connection through freebsd on my home > pc. I have opted in the interim to dial in manually, so here are the facts > > my ppp.conf file looks like this > > default: > set device /dev/cuaa0 > set speed 115200 > set parity even > > so then I invoke the ppp command, now *term > > at > atdt (isp #) > > at one point I got the login prompt for my isp, and was able to > succsessfully connect (the ppp became > PPP) I then typed in add 0 0 HISADDR, but what do I do at that point in > order to start running programs like telnet and lynx? Just hop over to a new virtual console (or use the !bg command to background ppp) and start running your programs. If you're not able to send/receive, run `netstat -rn' and make sure you have a default route through the tun0 interface. > Well that's not the > end of it, I have the past 3 or 4 times upon connecting been unable to type > in the login: and password: my keyboard becomes totally impaired the point > where my isp name shows up, some letters won't type in uppercase the enter > key doesn't work, so I'm left wondering what it was that I did wrong. I don't understand what's going on there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message