Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:11:42 -0400 From: "Paul Missman" <missmanp@milo.cfw.com> To: "lnb" <beef@beef.tht.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <support@cdrom.com> Cc: <jonni@tht.net> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <01bcd5c9$7d82d400$0525a8c0@paul2>
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I'll take a wild guess on this one: Your portmaster assigns a temporary IP address, until it authorizes your userid, finds out from its configuration files that you have a static IP, and then it assigns your static IP. The portmaster does not want to be restricted to some IP you give it, therefore, using a static IP in your ppp.conf results in the portmaster refusing to connect you. So, just leave the dynamic IP stuff in ppp.conf, and let the portmaster do its thing. Paul Missman Inb wrote: > Hello, > > I have been sending numerous mail regarding the problem of connecting or >rather the inability to get out on the net with ppp. > >Today i tried something which seems to have worked. The question is, why >is it working if what i did does not go along with both the FreeBSD >Handbook and PPP(8) man page. > >This is what I did. > >1) changed ppp.conf in the dial script to login using my sons username and >password. It connected to the 1st portmaster 209.47.145.10 which is the >one I could never get out on. I left the "set ifaddr" to 209.47.145.213 >(my static IP) and found I could not get out as usual. > >2) I changed the "set ifaddr" to 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 and dialed back in >and saw with "show route" in ppp on BEEF> that i was again connected to >the first portmaster with the IP as shown above for this particular >portmaster. > > I tried a traceroute to www.freebsd.org and presto I was able to get >out. > >3) I then went back in to ppp.conf and put in the login script my username >and password. I left the set ifaddr to 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 and redialed >back to my ISP. Again i hit on the first portmaster and I am able to now >connect and get out on the net. The show route also shows that my addr is >the static one assigned to me which is 209.47.145.213 > >Here is the show route: > >PPP ON beef> show route >default 209.47.145.10 ffffffff UG (1) >127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 ffffffff UH (3) >205.236.175.139 209.47.145.10 ffffffff UGH (1) >209.47.145.2 209.47.145.10 ffffffff UGH (1) >209.47.145.10 209.47.145.213 ffffffff UH (1) >PPP ON beef> > > As I asked before, why does this work, when infact, the man page and the >FreeBSD Handbook both tell me to put in set ifaddr my static ip, and when >i do i can't get out anywhere????? > > Maybe this might be helpful to someone else encountering the same >problems i did. > > >Thank you for reading this and for any response you may give > >Lanny Baron > >
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