Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:42:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP connection to German T-Online Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010122227590.164-100000@daniela.ncptiddische.net>
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Hallo folks, although I have set up user-land ppp for numerous times on several machines, I encountered a problem today that I feel unable to solve. Let me explain: On one of my machines that previously connected correctly to the Internet, I changed the configuration to dial into a T-Online (Germany's biggest ISP who is responsible for the fact that my previous provider went bankrupt, so I had to switch to them to get an affordable flatrate). That was simple: I simply changed the phone number, authname and authkey. DONE I thought - but wrong. When I now try to connect (ppp -nat papchap, followed by the dial command) I GET a connection, but I cannot reach any computer on the Internet. Only exception: I can ping the nameservers assigned to my by T-Online. I CANNOT, however, look up names (nslookup nightcastleproductions.org does not return a reply, even after a few minutes). I tried to ping other hosts by hostname and IP - but all failed. Now I tried to dial in to another different ISP using the same settings as for my T-Online connection (I only changed the phone number, username and password) and, THAT WORKS! Strange, I thought, so I went over to a buddy who has a Windoze box (I've installed FreeBSD on all my systems) and tried to establish a standard PPP connection using the Windoze Dial Up Network (so I didn't install the special T-Online software - which schouldn't be neccessary, since the basic dial-in method for T-Online is plain and simple PPP). And what did I see? It worked under Windows. Searching the web for information I found out that it also seems to work under Linux - I did not find any information concering FreeBSD (otherwise I wouldn't ask that question here). So, what's up? Basically, being unable to reach an outside host would suggest to me that there are problems with the routes. But that cannot be, because when I simply dial into a different ISP with the same basic settings in my ppp.conf file I used for T-Online, it works. So what else could it be? I don't know! I'd be glad if anyone (most likely a German subscriber of this mailing list) has some experience with using FreeBSD and T-Online. If somebody else has ever had similar problems I'd also be grateful if they would sheare their knowledge with me. Thanks in advance, Nils ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> NightCastle Productions * http://www.nightcastleproductions.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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