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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:55:27 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        ivona <ivona@triada.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with PPP
Message-ID:  <3679A7FF.71806156@uk.radan.com>
References:  <367970E3.1B22715E@triada.bg>

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ivona wrote:
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 2.2.6 and i have problems connecting to my ISP
> Since I am really new to this OS/I've been using it for a week now/ i
> was unable to write a script so i decided to conect i terminal mode. My
> ISP gives me a login: and password: prompt. I enter my details and i get
> 'Switching to PPP' and two promts ppp ON *****> and ppp ON ****> and the
> second one is not witha capital letters like the man page suggests.after
> that there is no traffic at all , netscape cannot find the requested
> servers, ftp does not find the hosts, nothing. Please can somebody help
> me and tell me what is wrong with what i'm doing. I tried 'add default
> HISADDR' after the second prompts but stil nothing. Could somebody
> please explain how to log in and conect to the internet. I am given a
> dynamic IP address and get a login: password prompt:
> I would appreciate any help!
> 

Until you get ``PPP on ?????'', i.e. capital ``PPP'', you haven't
established a PPP connection, try

delete all
add 0 0 HISADDR

It would help if you included your /etc/ppp.conf in your posting


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