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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!van-bc!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!tor.istar!east.istar!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!interaccess!usenet From: Jason Kuri <jay@interaccess.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Simple PPP question Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 21:18:00 -0500 Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32532258.41C67EA6@interaccess.com> References: <52upv9$cbo@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: d71.nb.interaccess.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) CC: atm@top.ca > Now I try to make a PPP link with my ISP but after switch to packet mode > it loop continually trying to exchange packets and connection dies. > Can somebody help me with this problem. > My ISP have a Microsoft NT server. > My ppp.conf: > > Myconnect: [ snip ] > set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy > (provider IP address and his netmask) Your problem is that the last line (set ifaddr 0 etc..) the packets it is exchanging is a negotiation of an IP address. Try setting using a line like: set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/0 This tells PPP to accept whatever IP the PPP server gives it. Without a /0 at the end, it wants to get the IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and won't accept anything else. Jay