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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.mindspring.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!interaccess!usenet From: Jason Kuri <jay@interaccess.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Simple PPP question Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 08:26:14 -0500 Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3253BEF6.167EB0E7@interaccess.com> References: <52upv9$cbo@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> <32532258.41C67EA6@interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d80.nb.interaccess.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) CC: atm@top.ca [snip] > set ifaddr 0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/0 this is wrong, sorry, the correction is: set ifaddr aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/0 eee.fff.ggg.hhh/0 netmask yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy > 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