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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Date: 19 May 1997 09:52:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5lp7th$42v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <337DBEDE.7A8C@cannet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.pixi.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41244 "Jeremy M. Harris" <jeremy@cannet.com> wrote: > I just reinstalled Free BSD 2.2.1 through the FTP install. My problem is > this if I start a PPP session on tty02 or tty03 I can call up my > provider and make a connection. When I go back to tty01 I cant telnet or > access any other network service. I keep getting no route to host > messages. > > I have set up the /etc/resolv.conf file with the nameservers address. I > cant add a gateway to the routing tables because even though I have a > static IP the gateway is dynamic everytime. You need to, anyway. ``add 0 0 HISADDR'' is supposed to be the solution (in ppp.conf). Spelling is important! Btw., stupid your provider for using a dynamic _gateway_ address on each connection. While i can see a point in providing dynamic _client_ addresses, there's absolutely no reason to not use the same address on the remote end for all incoming connections. (At least, no technical reason.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)