*BSD News Article 59636


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems w/ User PPP
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:13:06 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <30F9FE82.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>
References: <4da13l$ha9@swen.emba.uvm.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386)
To: Todd Huss <huss@emba-news.uvm.edu>

Todd Huss wrote:
> switches to packet mode. However, when I switch to another window to try
> and telnet out nothing happens. My modem lights don't so much as blink

Are you sure that the default route is being set correctly?  BTW, telnet
is a terrible diagnostic tool to use while you're trying to diagnose a
link - use ping!

The user mode ppp stuff requires an `add 0 0' line somewhere in your
config to set a default route.  Verify that it's doing so with a
`netstat -r'.
-- 
	- Jordan Hubbard
	  President, FreeBSD Project