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From: wietse@spike.porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Dial Out w/ ppp on BSD/OS 2.1
Date: 24 Dec 1996 15:48:33 -0500
Organization: Wietse's hangout while on sabattical in the USA
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"John Prochaska" <john@s-cc.com> writes:
>I'm using BSD/OS 2.1 . I'm trying to use dial out ppp to another sub net.
I'm running BSD/OS 2.1 and have it hooked up 24/7 via ppp.
>I'm running
>on a Pentium 100 with an SMC ether card. The modem connects fine, and runs
>ppp, but I can't even ping the ip address assigned to the ppp0 interface,
You do not tell if your ppp interface has the same IP address as
your ethernet interface. BSD/OS assumes they are the same. If the
addresses are different you need to add an if= entry to /etc/ppp.sys.
My entry is:
:if=inet 168.100.189.1 168.100.1.152 netmask 255.255.255.255:\
>anything on the remote sub net. If I haven't specified a default route to
>ppp0 before
>hand, a default route is added for the we0 interface, and the gateway for
When the rest of the world is at the other end of the ppp link,
don't set up a default route to the ethernet interface. In fact,
don't set up a default route at all. Instead, rely on the
/etc/netscripts/Dialout.* scripts to set up the default route for
you once the link is up.
When the rest of the world is reachable via ethernet, and there is
just a subnet at the other end of the ppp link, you need to run a
modified version of the /etc/netscripts/Dialout scripts to set up
a route to that remote subnet.
>Is anyone actually using BSD/OS 2.1 to successfully dial out using ppp?
Yup, BSD/OS 2.1 and PPP. Works fine here, once I added
stty cts_oflow rts_iflow < /dev/modem
to the dialout.up script. For some reason, h/w flow control is
not enabled by default.
Wietse