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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: PPP (add default ........)
Date: 4 Nov 1996 03:54:43 -0000
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In article <327BCFE1.3183@fast.net>,
	Jianling Yang & Xinan Pan <jyang@fast.net> writes:
: Here is the problems:
: When I start my ppp(free BSD2.1.5) try to connect to my Local 
: internet provider,I get "dial OK", "Login OK", when I use " > show
: ipcp", I can see his site IP and my site IP which were assigned 
: dynamically.But I have a problem to ping others after that.
:  I try to add a line "add default netmask HISADDR" in ppp.linkup file,
: but it didn't work, So I use ppp comand in ppp prompt:
>> add default netmask HISADDR
: 
: so it works !!,
:  I want to know why and how can I make this default
: route added automatically.

delete ALL
add 0 0 HISADDR

in both your ppp.conf & ppp.linkup files.

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Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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