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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: cannot configure ppp
Date: 19 Sep 1996 08:32:31 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
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In <51ng6d$akv@bad-news.harborcom.net>, vincent@harborcom.net (vince) writes:
>I have successfully installed freeBSD 2.1.5 from cd-rom, however I
>have been unsuccessful at getting ppp dial up to work .
>I am able to dial my connection and get ppp ON mode


Once you get the PPP on, have you tried just ifconfig'ing the ppp interface?
Maybe you  do indeed have an LCP link established that would work, but
for whatever reason the remote PPP server is simply not sending you the
routing information.