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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!unlisys!not-for-mail From: boerge <boerge@berlin.snafu.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP to local ISP (Routing question, I think) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:34:53 -0100 Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3276160D.6B96@berlin.snafu.de> References: <stanbDzt9pp.IM9@netcom.com> Reply-To: boerge@berlin.snafu.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.64.64.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> > 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. Good Question: I got also mixed up with dynamic adresses. also tried: add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx HISADDR ,did not work.... Did anybody got it right? greetings, moritz