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From: Brett Bourbin <brett@selgus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with user PPP
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:15:47 -0800
Organization: Selgus Limited
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Rostyslav Cisyk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems getting user PPP to work. It dials OK to my Internet
> providor and negotiates addresses. However, when I try to ping some host,
> the packets seem to go out, but no incoming packets are ever received. Also,
[lots deleted]

Have you setup your packet filters?  Take a look at 
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf.filters.sample for some examples of filters to enable 
and some to disable.

It sounds like you setup the link ok, but are just filtering out all 
packets.
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