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From: Jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help setting up autodial PPP to ISP
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:51:32 -0500
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To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>
Stan Brown wrote:
>
> Could some kind soul give me some advice on setting up PPP to
> my local ISP?
>
> I am trying to get autodial to work. I presently have gotten
> it working corectly for manual dialing. I am using user mode PPP.
> I could switch to kernelmode if that will solve my problem. The ISP in
> question dynamically assigns me an IP address on every dial in. Every
> time I try to do "ppp -auto isp" I get an error message saying that I
> have to specefiy the destination address to use this feature. Does
> this mean I can't do this?
Absolutely not.
> Or am I missing somehting?
Probably. :)
Try sticking these lines within your isp: block in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.1.1.2/0
add 0 0 127.1.1.2
and make sure that
MYADDR:
delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDR
is in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
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