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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP - Having problems setting up ppp
Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:51:42 GMT
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jpbrock@snowhill.com (Jerome P. Brock) writes:

> I can dial into my ISP (BTW, I have no problem when in Win95) and
> start a PPP session, but I can't reach out.  I get route errors.

> DNS address:	205.216.77.2
> Gateway addr:	205.216.77.2

> snowhill:
>  set phone xxxxxxx
>  set login "TIMEOUT 10 gin:-BREAK-gin: myid word: mypass"
>  set timeout 300
>  set ifaddr 0 0

The ppp.conf misses a ``add 0 0 205.216.77.2'', to add the default
route as shown in the Gateway addr above.

You didn't provide us with an example of /etc/resolv.conf, i hope
you've got ``nameserver 205.216.77.2'' there, you won't be able to
translate names to IP addresses otherwise.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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