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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!docws001!ottnews!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Subject: Re: PPP Conection to ISP X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 159.249.8.221 Message-ID: <Dv4pHz.6to@ottnews.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Ottawa) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4t5r64$fd8@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 02:27:35 GMT Lines: 48 I had similar problems. My ISP was running a Sun with separate terminal (modem) controllers hung on the network. They were not forwarding traffic as good gateways should. I finally convinced him to contact the vendor re setup, and they were working the next day. With an active routed/gated life was impossible before that. I got temporary connectivity by putting in a default route to his main computer, which works with 'routed -q'. good luck, Tom Robert Gonzales (rgonzale@mli-vtg.com) wrote: : I have been really trying to get my PPP conection to my ISP to work. I : have been unsuccessful. I have read the handboook on PPP : Connections. I believe everything is ok in the sysconfig, hosts, : networks, and resolv.conf files. I seem to always get a timeout from : my routed network. My ISP is earthlink. So I belive my gateway is : 206.85.98.2, but the IP address assigned to me is dynamic. So in my : ppp.linkup file I have: : MYADDR: : add 0 0 HISADDR : #end ppp.linkup : In my ppp.conf I have : . : . : . : login .... : . : set timeout 120 : set ifaddr 0 0 # For dynamic allocated IP ? : #end ppp.conf : After awhile the network is removed from the routing table because of : a timeout and the modem hangsup. I was never able to ping the ISP : gatway or anything outside of my network. : Question: Is it not possible to connect to the internet without any : formal IP address or domain name? I am try to do the impossible? : Any Suggestions? : Robert Gonzales : Always trying accomplish the impossible...