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From: "John D. Lima" <lima@nosc.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP problems
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:58:23 -0800
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Marco Frissen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> because I am changing to a different ISP, I had to change my ppp.conf
> etc...
> The following problem occurred: "no route to host" while pinging.
> The things I changed were:
> 
> the resolv.conf: added new nameserver IP (delete old one)
> 
> ppp.conf: added correct login script + phonenumber ..
>           added set ifaddr <MY_STATIC_IP> <GATEWAY_IP>
> 
> ppp.linkup: added <MY_STATIC_IP>:
>                         add 0 0 HISADDR
> 
> and still "no route to host" ... this worked fine for my old ISP
> provider (DYNAMIC IP).
> 
> Did I forget something? (maybe my ISP does something wrong?)

My (new) ISP filters out ping packets, so I have the same problem;
I'm trying to get them to remove some of these restrictions to my
machine (also with static ip).

I can traceroute/telnet/ftp..etc, perhaps you have the same situation
(assuming you successfully established the ppp linkup)

hope it helps,

--jd.