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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:39:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        lindsay evenson <travis@interlog.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dial up
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415173759.5597J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19980415201529.225727a4@mail.interlog.com>

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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, lindsay evenson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>         I am having trouble dialing up to the internet with my freeBSD box.
> I am using user ppp and have FreeBSD 2.2.2 . I get the modem to dial, and it
> runs through the scrips I made.  It logs in to my ISP, but when I shell out,
> i am not able to ping any IP addresses, and I can not ping any Names like
> www.microsoft.com .

When you say `shell out', what exactly are you doing?

You should hop over to a different console (using alt-f?) and work from
there.  Suspending ppp suspends the connection too.

> I have a dynamic ip address.  My gateway for the internet is 198.53.145.4
> and my DNS server for the Internet is 207.34.202.6, where abouts do I out
> these ip addresses?
> 
> when I try to ping it says "ping: sendto: no route to host".  I have checked
> all the documentation, and have tryed allmost everything, but I still cant ping!

Try doing `add 0 0 HISADDR' at the PPP> prompt when you connect.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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