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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!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!news1.io.org!bpci.net3.io.org!user From: rrwood@io.org (Roy Wood) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Connecting FreeBSD with my ISP Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:54:15 -0500 Organization: Silicon Angst Software Lines: 29 Message-ID: <rrwood-0404961754150001@bpci.net3.io.org> References: <4jvggt$c92@thoth.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bpci.net3.io.org In article <4jvggt$c92@thoth.portal.ca>, Christoff Snijders <"hjcs@portal.ca"@portal.ca> wrote: > My ISP has refused to give me any information on the unix side, and has > offered to fix the problem for me at $95 an hour. Am I just being > stupid? Or is it time to find another ISP? Find a new ISP, I'd say. You sound like you're definitely *not* a clueless bozo, and are probably doing most things right. Just to be safe though, you could double check some of the excellent FAQ's that are available-- especially the FreeBSD handbook's chapters on networking. From what you're saying, it sounds like the ppp script might not be succssfully logging in after all, and automatically breaks the connection after a timeout delay. That's just a rough guess-- I've never actually tinkered with ppp but am using slip. For those of you with more direct ppp experience, would it make sense for Christoff to do a "netstat -in" to check the status of the ppp connection? (Does ppp report any info back that way?) I assume another thing to try is simply pinging the gateway or any other host on the ISP's side of the connection to see if anything is getting in and out again. -Roy