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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!lurch.sccsi.com!news.sccsi.com!nuchat!not-for-mail From: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dynamic IP addressing on dialup PPP link... Date: 31 Jul 1996 12:36:51 -0500 Organization: GB Data Systems (ISP, ICP and FreeBSD consulting) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4to5jj$dfq@main.gbdata.com> References: <4tnleu$rvk@star.epix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gb2.brewich.com In article <4tnleu$rvk@star.epix.net>, Paul Boyer <pboyer@news.epix.net> wrote: > >It appears that FreeBSD isn't quite as cooperative w/r/t dynamic IP >addresses as is Linux, as I cannot establish a PPP link over a dialup >connection with my ISP. (and yes, I've considered that I might be >incompetent rather than merely ignorant... :) >Would anyone have any insight into this problem? Paul, We have to have just a little bit more information here. I've got atleast 5 machines that use dial-up dynamic PPP and they all run fine. Does the system dial? If it does dial does it properly login? If it logins in what type of messages does pppd report? You may want to read the manpages on both pppd and chat and setup syslog to route these two log streams to a log file. Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii