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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP and FreeBSD Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:40:09 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31B539D9.4E8A@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31B3C2A5.6955@kuentos.guam.net> 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) Bill Shaw wrote: > > Hello; > I work at an ISP, Kuentos Communications, and I have installed > FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my PC at home. I have configured my PPP in accordance with > the FreeBSD handbook. Well, I can dial in and connect but there is > something rotten in the state of Denmark. Here are the details of the ISP: > 1. must add a +ppp to the username when establishing a ppp session. > 2. connect to a PortMaster 2e (made by Livingston Enterprises) first. > 3. ISP is running BSDI > 4. IP addresses are assigned dynamicaly. > > Here is what I get. I can connect and if I omit the +ppp I can have a > single shell access session. But can have no others. A netstat -nr shows > only the PortMasters IP address, my dynamic IP, and the localhost. If I > login with the +ppp, it connects but I can not do anything. I show it > connected but get told that there is no route to the host when I telnet or > attempt to ftp. (This is true for my ISP's gateway, or anyplace else on the > net for that matter.) > > Since everything is setup just like the handbook is there something else I > am missing????? I am not new to unix, but am new to setting up the ppp, > help.......... > Are you using the iijppp method or the pppd? Procedures for the two are very different, although both use the /etc/ppp directory. They won't mix. Ken