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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP connection
Date: 16 Sep 1996 13:42:17 +0100
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Andrew (atf@earthlink.net) wrote:
: Hello all,
: 	I need to connect to my ISP with ppp. I have tried setting up ppp to
: connect but it doesn't seem to work. I was wondering what needs to be
: done to connect. All the information I have or need is Phone# and
: Nameserver #. The ISP gives the rest to me. So how do I dial and login.
: 	I got ppp to dial and it _says_ login ok, but I can't ftp to anything,
: or use Mosaic. 
: 	Thanks for any help.

Have you got a default route ?  If you're using iijppp (/usr/sbin/ppp),
you need a line in ppp.conf: add 0 0 HISADDR.  If this isn't the answer,
what does "netstat -rn" say after it says "login ok" ?  Can you ping
the "gateway" ?  If there's not gateway in your routing table, Try putting
a line saying "set Debug Chat" in ppp.conf and have a look at the output
(/var/log/ppp.log).

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....