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From: Jason Kuri <jay@interaccess.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Simple PPP question
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 21:18:00 -0500
Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider
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> Now I try to make a PPP link with my ISP but after switch to packet mode
> it loop continually trying to exchange packets and connection dies.
> Can somebody help me with this problem.
> My ISP have a Microsoft NT server.
> My ppp.conf:
> 
> Myconnect:
[ snip ]
>  set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>               (provider IP address and his netmask)

   Your problem is that the last line (set ifaddr 0 etc..) the packets
it is exchanging is a negotiation of an IP address.  Try setting using a
line like:

set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/0

This tells PPP to accept whatever IP the PPP server gives it.  Without a
/0 at the end, it wants to get the IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd and won't accept
anything else.

Jay