Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:26:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: lindsay evenson <travis@interlog.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial up Message-ID: <199804162226.XAA24090@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:39:27 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415173759.5597J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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.
[.....]
It may be of interest... with the MP branch, we can now ^Z then ``bg''
ppp :-) The -current & -stable branches of ppp now warn that you're
suspending ppp operations when you ``shell'', but the 2.2.2 version
did not :-(
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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