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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP? Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 19:13:41 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31AE55D5.7E34@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31AAE40E.446B@inferno.phys.tue.nl> <31AC1C90.38F6@ngonet.be> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Gunter Loos wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD 2.1, with ppp. > When I connect using twinsock, I get a > connection and a IP-address. But that's all, > I can't ping to it or anything. DNS lookups don't work either. > Anyone seen it before? Are there specific settings for twinsock, > or ppp - config files. I use them almost identical to the examples, > together with mgetty+fax. > > Any ideas? > More info, please. When you connect what to what? Is your FBSD box also a gateway, maybe? If so, did you include its IP address in twinsock? Do you have a nameserver listed? And do you have a HOSTS file in your twinsock directory? Or are you dialling through twinsock to FBSD? If so, you still need to identify your nameserver and other stuff. With more info, maybe we can solve this. Ken