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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!usenet 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 Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ei2cm$i3k@news.mel.aone.net.au> References: <4e99b7$hp3@news.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: d52-1.cpe.sydney.aone.net.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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