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From: wkyu@cs.hku.hk (Yu Wing Ka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 User PPP with Dynamic IP's
Date: 22 Apr 1996 03:12:49 GMT
Organization: University of Hong Kong
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Jay Rothschild (jay@eagle.ais.net) wrote:
> At the shell prompt as root I type: ppp, get the ppp prompt, type: set ifaddr 0 0, then
> type: term, which brings me to my modem.
> I dialout finewith the usual ATDTxxxxxxx, type in my username & password, see the usual
> ppp garbage ({'s and so forth) the ppp prompt changes to PPP. I shell out, & netstat -r
> shows the assigned ip's, but I can't ping a thing except localhost or my recently
> assigned ip.
You also need to add your connected peer as the default gateway by the
following command:
add 0 0 HISADDR
at the PPP prompt.
This can be automatically done if you have /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.
See /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample as an example.
Good luck.
Best regards,
-- Ka (wkyu@cs.hku.hk)