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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.nordwest.de!lemur.nord.de!usenet From: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with ppp -auto Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:09:52 +0100 Organization: Lemuria Private Computing Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31151290.167EB0E7@lemur.nord.de> References: <DLzz63.D10@server4.bell-atl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.lemur.nord.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Vlad D. Markov wrote: > > I can use ppp as root to connect to my service provider, put > the process in background and then the users on my system have > no problem accessing anything. > > I then tried ppp -auto provider. The first problem was that ppp > said it needed a dstaddr. I went to the manual page for ppp and in my > ppp.conf file changed iffaddr to ifaddr 0 address/0. > > if I start ppp as root and place it in background my users can get > everywhere but when I use ppp -auto provider, my users can't go > beyond my service provider's domain. What did I do incorrectly? It seems there is no default route in your configuration. You should place it just behind the definition for "ifaddr". I hope this hint helps. I am still experimenting with user ppp. Cheers, Thomas