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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.hic.net!chas-pc 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) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <58dek3$7is@news.hic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp.hic.net Keywords: PPP FreeBSD X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 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