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From: ctilbury@hic.net (Charles A. Tilbury)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD and PPP
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 96 03:40:54 GMT
Organization: Houston Internet Connect (HIC)
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I have a Pertium 90, and a fairly complete install of FreeBSD, but I am
stumped on getting user PPP to work. I am running the user PPP program
and logging in manually. I have been through the "RTFM" procedure with all of
the man pages and the other documentation on disk, but I think I am
overlooking something simple that perhaps is not in there. Here is a
description of the problem:
1. I can dial out and authenticate to the ISP's server.
2. When I ping myself, I get packet transfers.
3. When I ping the ISP's router, I can see activity on the modem send light,
but I never see any recieve activity, and all of the packets are lost.
4. I do not see any error messages anywhere on the system, including the
/var/log/ppp.log.
The only thing I can think of is that the ISP thinks it has assigned an
address, but BSD doesn't know about it. I am using an address that they have
assigned, but I know that they are dynamically assigning address for some
other subscribers that use Win95. I have configured the files, such as
ppp.conf and the hosts file, to look like I an using a permanently assigned
address. The ISP is using BSDi.
Thanks in advance.
Charles Tilbury
ctilbury@hic.net
P.S.
RTFM = Read The F***ing Manual