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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Doesn't Work
Date: 5 Aug 1996 16:06:59 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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Message-ID: <4u5673$1cl@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
References: <4trg08$c50@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>
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In article <4trg08$c50@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>,
Robert Gonzales <rgonzale@mli-vtg.com> wrote:
>
>I am able to get a connection and login with my service provider. A
>Perfect Connection! The IPCP negotiations get my IP address, which is
>dynamically allocated. The gateway and DNS are set correctly, I got
>the numbers directly from the service provider. My log shows that I
>have the perfect connection.
> 
>No errors. And still I am unable to communication via the internet. I
>can't ping, telnet, ftp, nothing. I followed the manuals and man
>pages. Could any tell me what could be happing? I know this account
>works because I can use it with my WIN95 tcpip stack.

Are you using names or IP addresses when pinging machines?   Try using
IP addresses.

If IP addresses work and names don't, it must be a DNS problem.  If 
you can ping the machine you are connected to, but nothing else, you 
are missing a "default route" (the output of 'netstat -rn' should show
a route from your IP address to 'default').

And if you can't ping anything at all, the connection has been lost. :-)

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/