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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!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Connect's then... Date: 9 Feb 1997 15:16:51 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5dkpp3$p7p@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32fcbf6e.554557@news.inreach.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35234 In article <32fcbf6e.554557@news.inreach.com>, spyguy@inreach.com (George Josol) writes: > I'm having difficulty getting my BSD PPP to work. I followed the > tutorial that's available at freebsd.org. My problem is once it dials > out and appears to login to my ISP (I get the ok prompts) I then > shell out and initiate a ping or whois command. > > My cursor just carraige returns to the next line, nada. I can ^C > out of it and back to my shell. When I do a ps -e it shows that my PPP > is running. You're not using the shell command from within the ppp program itself, are you? Won't work! Try switching to another virtual terminal and doing a ping. Doing it from ppp causes ppp to temporarily suspend. I think the shell command is provided mainly so you can go edit your config or whatever. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads