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From: boerge <boerge@berlin.snafu.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP to local ISP (Routing question, I think)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:34:53 -0100
Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin
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To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>

> IPS. I have gotten as far as being able to manually dial and get ppp started
> (as evidenced by the PPP prompt). The provider usesdynamic IP assignmnet.
> I can do a show log and get my IP address that has been assigned.
> 
>         Now the problem. I can ping that address, but no others that I should
> bea able to. For instance hsi nameserver. I believe that this is probably
> an issue of how my rotuiing table are set up. The ISP thinks that I
> should do a "ADD 0 0 HISADDR" at the PPP prompt. This os probably correct,
> but there must be more to it than that.

Good Question:
I got also mixed up with dynamic adresses.
also tried:

add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx HISADDR

,did not work....
Did anybody got it right?

greetings, moritz