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From: andrsn@Hoover.Stanford.EDU (Annelise Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and FreeBSD
Date: 14 Jun 1996 07:35:44 GMT
Organization: The Hoover Institution
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Message-ID: <4pr4og$9s9@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <31B3C2A5.6955@kuentos.guam.net>,<31B539D9.4E8A@www.play-hookey.com>
Reply-To: andrsn@Hoover.Stanford.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hoover.stanford.edu
In article <31B539D9.4E8A@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
>Bill Shaw wrote:
>>
>> Hello;
>> I work at an ISP, Kuentos Communications, and I have installed
>> FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my PC at home. I have configured my PPP in accordance with
>> the FreeBSD handbook. Well, I can dial in and connect but there is
>> something rotten in the state of Denmark. Here are the details of the ISP:
>> 1. must add a +ppp to the username when establishing a ppp session.
>> 2. connect to a PortMaster 2e (made by Livingston Enterprises) first.
>> 3. ISP is running BSDI
>> 4. IP addresses are assigned dynamicaly.
>>
>> Here is what I get. I can connect and if I omit the +ppp I can have a
>> single shell access session. But can have no others. A netstat -nr shows
>> only the PortMasters IP address, my dynamic IP, and the localhost. If I
>> login with the +ppp, it connects but I can not do anything. I show it
>> connected but get told that there is no route to the host when I telnet or
>> attempt to ftp. (This is true for my ISP's gateway, or anyplace else on the
>> net for that matter.)
>>
>> Since everything is setup just like the handbook is there something else I
>> am missing????? I am not new to unix, but am new to setting up the ppp,
>> help..........
>>
>
>Are you using the iijppp method or the pppd? Procedures for the two are very
>different, although both use the /etc/ppp directory. They won't mix.
>
>Ken
It sounds to me like you need, on your own machine, a default route;
try route add default <PortMasters IP address> and see if you can
then telnet.
Annelise
Annelise Anderson
andrsn@hoover.stanford.edu