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From: alan@s056.aone.net.au (Alan Ruedlinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP problems
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:57:23 GMT
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reichwej@ucs.orst.edu (Dusty Reichwein) wrote:

>User PPP has begun to frustrate me.

:)

>I've done everything it says in the handbook, and the man pages to get it 
>to work.  I have tried the suggestions in this newsgroup (removing the
>config line for tun0, adding a default route with 'add 0 0')  and nothing
>works.  I have tried playing with and disabling various daemons and disabling
>TCP extensions and nothing works.  Here's what happens

>I dial into my ISP, and log in normally.  User ppp switches to packet mode,
>and a few moments later gives me a "PPP ON>" prompt, note that the PPP is
>in capital letters. 

Yup!  She's working fine!  Just start another virtual terminal session
by hitting ALT+F2 (or F3, or F4.. etc), or firing up another Xterm
window if in X windows.  Took me a while to figure this out too...


Alan