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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Some PPP and Routing Problems
Date: 13 Feb 1997 02:37:36 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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Caveat: this is *not* a helpful followup at all!  :-)

In article <seth.leigh-1002971332000001@s_leigh.dtint.com>,
	seth.leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh) writes:
> Hi all.
> 
> I too have fought long and hard, and thought I was finally set up with PPP
> on-demand running.  But now there are problems I just can't understand.

I can sympathize.  :-)

[ stuff about changing working setup deleted ]

> Now I have several problems.  Worst of which is that I didn't backup this
> files before dorking around with them, and I can't remember EXACTLY how
> they were set up when things _seemed_ to be working.

My problem as well.  I totally hosed my FreeBSD drive not too long ago,
and now I can't remember for the life of me how I had my ppp.conf setup to
do on-demand dialing (dynamic IP).  Been fiddling with it for the last two
days now, and still no go.

> Anyways, if anybody can be so kind as to give me a good idea on how to
> understand the exact relationship between the /etc/sysconfig file, the
> /etc/hosts file, the hostname of the FreeBSD machine, the ppp.conf file,
> etc., I would be much obliged.

As would I also.  :-)

Damn, we *desperately* need better docs on this stuff!

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads