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From: "Tom Torrance" <tom@tomqnx.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: PPP (add default ........)
Date: 15 Nov 1996 16:31:02 GMT
Organization: Comnet Communications
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Enter this in ppp.linkup

name:
	delete ALL
	add 0 0 HISADDR


Jianling Yang & Xinan Pan <jyang@fast.net> wrote in article
<327BCFE1.3183@fast.net>...
> Here is the problems:
> When I start my ppp(free BSD2.1.5) try to connect to my Local 
> internet provider,I get "dial OK", "Login OK", when I use " > show
> ipcp", I can see his site IP and my site IP which were assigned 
> dynamically.But I have a problem to ping others after that.
>  I try to add a line "add default netmask HISADDR" in ppp.linkup file,
> but it didn't work, So I use ppp comand in ppp prompt:
> > add default netmask HISADDR
> 
> so it works !!,
>  I want to know why and how can I make this default
> route added automatically.
> 
> Jane
>