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From: Michael Wozniak <mwozniak@border.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP problems  - "Dial on Demand" won't dial
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:24:39 -0500
Organization: Border Network Technologies
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <5fd13j$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
>         j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> > layne@cnj.digex.net (Darren Layne) wrote:
> >
> >> However, when I go to look for things outside my domain, ppp does not
> >> automatically dial up my ISP.
> >
> > You probably didn't tell it to establish a default route?
> 
> Sounds about right, but the new example files have "add 0 0 HISADDR"
> in both ppp.conf and ppp.linkup.
> 
> What does the log file say (/var/log/ppp.log) ?  After ppp is running,
> what does "netstat -rn" say ?
> 
> --
> Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
>       <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !

Also see the 'delete ALL' line in ppp.linkup.sample.  It's reqd for 
DOD as well...
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Michael S. Wozniak, Systems Developer, Secure Computing Corporation
e-mail: mwozniak@border.com, web: http://www.interlog.com/~mwozniak