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From: gorski@cipw03.physik.uni-bonn.de (Achim Gorski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pppd does not work with modem
Date: 25 Apr 1996 11:26:48 GMT
Organization: University of Bonn, Germany
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In-reply-to: Stephane Russell's message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:26:20 -0400

In article <317EAA8C.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> writes:

> From: Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com>
> 
> Since FreeBSD comes with the pseudo-device ppp disables,
> and since this pseudo-device is needed by the pppd daemon,
> this may be the reason why you can't make it work. In
> FreeBSD, the *ppp* utility is used instead of *pppd*. The
> first one uses tun0 instead of ppp as pseudo-device. If
> it's your case, then you should uncomment that line in
> your system's configuration file:
> 
> #pseudo-device  ppp     1
> 

Sorry, but this isn't the fault.
If there's no ppp pseudo-device, pppd says something like that:
ppp not configured on this system

The point is: before reinstallation of Free2.1.0 it works, now it won't !
Currently I have no idea why. (cu works!)


Thanks for your suggestion.

Achim