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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