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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User PPP problems Date: 27 Jan 1996 22:24:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4ee8ne$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4e99b7$hp3@news.orst.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 reichwej@ucs.orst.edu (Dusty Reichwein) writes: > I dial into my ISP, and log in normally. User ppp switches to packet mode, > and a few moments later gives me a "PPP ON>" prompt, note that the PPP is > in capital letters. > > I then type the shell command and try various network utilities, and none > of them work. Err, i'm not sure, AFAIK the shell command suspends the execution of your ppp program until you exit it again. It's rather supposed as a loophole to get out into a shell before dialing etc., not while the program is running. Use another virtual terminal instead. You might have luck with ^Z and backgrounding ppp (``bg''), but even this leaves a small time window where your ppp program won't be able to answer the line. Once you've setup everything correctly in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, better run it with -dedicated or -auto, this doesn't block the terminal. Quit the program by telnetting to port 3000 on localhost, and say ``quit all'' then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)