Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:53:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> To: bef126@psu.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199707291753.NAA10576@limbo.senate.org> In-Reply-To: <33DD6F05.78CF@psu.edu> from Brian Freeman at "Jul 29, 97 00:18:13 am"
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PPP ON yourhost> add 0 0 HISADDR This will add a default route for your ISP. Look into pppd as well. > I am trying to establish a PPP connection so I can use my netscape > broswer. Using the PPP program that came with my distribution (FreeBSD > 2.2), I establish a connection (I assume the connection is established > because the ppp turns from lower case into upper case ppp -> PPP and I > am assigned an IP address). I then load netscape. Every time I type in > a URL I get the message "Server doesn't have a DNS entry . . ." so I > know it is not connecting to the internet. Then after about 5 minutes > the connection breaks and the error log says "Too many packets lost". I > know using netscape with Windows that I had to use an internet socket > program "Winsock" and was wondering do I need something like this for > UNIX? Or else is there something I'm doing wrong or forgot to do? > > Any comments or suggestions would be appriciated. > > Thank you, > Brian > bef126@psu.edu >
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