Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:18:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Allen Louden <alouden@access.mountain.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <19970912101815.00741@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970911203734.006a5384@access.mountain.net>; from Allen Louden on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 08:37:39PM -0400 References: <3.0.32.19970911203734.006a5384@access.mountain.net>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 08:37:39PM -0400, Allen Louden wrote: > Greg, > > Let me start with a hearty THANK YOU! I appreciate the time you are taking > to help me. You're welcome. > Something I neglected to mention previously is that my provider assigns me > a dynamic ip. It seems this may (I could be wrong) change the way we have > done things. I say this because, this evening, after I received your > latest, I added the default route and nothing would ping. Well, the packets > are transmitted, but not returned. Also, when I did a netstat -rn, the > addresses are different each time I am on. OK. This is a FAQ. You need a file /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup with the following contents: MYADDR: add 0 0 HISADDR Note the indent of the second line. This will add the route for you when you establish connection. > Another cause for question. It seemed that while I was fiddling with > the different ping attempts, I would lose the packet mode and have to go > back into ppp, then term and then re-enter packet mode. (?) When I did a > show route in ppp one time I was given the following; > > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 ffffffff UH 4 > 198.77.21.3 198.77.21.41 ffffffff UH 2 > > and another show route gave me four or five different address lines. I haven't seen that one. Let's solve the other problems first, and see if that one is still there. > One other thing for now, how in the hell do I disconnect my modem? Hmm. There was something going around on this topic in the last couple of days, but I didn't follow it. What happens if you enter 'quit' to the ppp program? > Oh, btw, in resolv.conf nameserver is the actual entry, that was just an > abbreviation on my part, sorry for the confusion. OK. Greg
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