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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Continuing Sage
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:43:11 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33a579ba.12116167@news1.alterdial.uu.net>,
tsuess@inspace.net (Todd Suess) writes:
> Greets all,
> In the continuing Saga of the defective sysinstall in 2.2.2, I found a
> new problem.. I decided to totally trash my install and reinstalled
> 2.2.2-RELEASE, using the site at freebsd.cdrom.com to grab everything
> from. Install went great, no problems at all, except for one thing..
> I did everything exactly the same I did on the previous 2 installs,
> except now my PPP dialup to my ISP refuses to function. I can dial up
> and connect fine, and everything appears normal, including name
> service lookups, but regardless of the destination, I get NO ROUTE TO
> HOST. Seeing as I did everything the same way, I am confused why it
> worked fine the last 2 installs and refuses to this time.. The only
> thing I can think of, is in the sysinstall network setup, where it
> asks for domain, ip, etc. the first time I ran it, I filled in
> everything as normal, but I don't remember getting the question from
> sysinstall that asks for the Internet Address of my Internet Service
> Provider, and to enter "0" if you want the connect to be negotiated
> automatically. Where does sysinstall put the "0" if you want to
> autonegotiate? I looked at my routing table in PPP, and it looks ok,
> but I didn't see a route to the gateway on the Terminal Service I was
> calling in on. I saw local routes from my machine to the Terminal
> Server I dialed it to, etc.. Any suggestions would be most helpful.
> NOTE: I am using PPP in interactive mode until I get a script working,
> so keep that in mind, please.. The only thing that really bugs me is
> that it worked PERFECTLY the last two installs, and this time, nada..
Interactively, after you've connected, "add 0 0 HISADDR" should
create your default route.
For -auto, in ppp.conf, you need "add 0 0 x.x.x.x" where x.x.x.x
is the suspected IP of your ISP (the second arg to "set ifaddr"
but without the /XX bit at the end), and "add 0 0 HISADDR" in
ppp.linkup.
> Todd
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !