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Date:      Tue, 03 Jun 1997 01:33:55 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        jwb@fore.com
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp and static IP 
Message-ID:  <199706030033.BAA18873@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:23:27 EDT." <199706021423.KAA01533@jwb.fore.com> 

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> Freebsd 2.2.1-RELEASE
> ppp 2.2 patch level 0beta3 and 2.3 patch level 0beta3
> 
> My provider upgraded their Bay routers last week and now I can not use
> ppp on Freebsd with a static IP address. Mickysoft and linux works so I'm
> hung out to dry. I can use a dynamic IP though. Bay is saying that Freebsd
> is messed up. Debug doesn't show anything special in the LCP negotiation..
> tried turning off and on every switch in the man page for pppd and tried 
> turning off tcp/ip extensions in sysconfig.
> 
> I tried compiling the new pppd (2.3 which supports dial on demand) but it
> does the same thing. I did discover that the make process specifically for
> freebsd does not work and munges the system src tree. Has anyone got a valid
> port for the new pppd?
> 
> Please cc me in email since I don't get this list. Any suggestions or help
> or fixes for my ppp problem are very welcome. I don't want to load linux and
> really don't want to find another provider just because of this so I get
> to learn slip this week (yay!).

You could try user-level ppp.  There's a pretty recent copy at
http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.

> @-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-@
> Joe Beiter                          FORE Systems, Inc.
> jwb@fore.com                        Network Integration Services
> (412)772-6585

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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