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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: roycet@airmail.net (Royce Tidwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP to local ISP (Routing question, I think) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 04:42:58 GMT Organization: INTERNET AMERICA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <551dcc$fnc@library.airnews.net> References: <stanbDzt9pp.IM9@netcom.com> Reply-To: roycet@airmail.net NNTP-Posting-Host: fw14-10.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99.81 stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > I am trying to get my new FreeBSD machine connected to my local >IPS. I have gotten as far as being able to manually dial and get ppp started >(as evidenced by the PPP prompt). The provider usesdynamic IP assignmnet. >I can do a show log and get my IP address that has been assigned. > Now the problem. I can ping that address, but no others that I should >bea able to. For instance hsi nameserver. I believe that this is probably >an issue of how my rotuiing table are set up. The ISP thinks that I >should do a "ADD 0 0 HISADDR" at the PPP prompt. This os probably correct, >but there must be more to it than that. I had the exact problem. The solution I have found thus far, through lots trial and error, is that in the ppp.linkup file, I removed the ADD 0 0 HISADDR, and added this: add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx HISADDR (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the netmask prolly 255.255.255.0) > What other things do I need to do to set up the correct routing ? >Yes I have read the PPP man page, and the section in the Handbook on this. I did too, it didn't help me much either. > Als is there any way that I can watch the PPP chat script runing in >oreder to debug my login chat script ? I haven't gotten that far yet, lemme know if you get it worked out. Royce Tidwell