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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Connect's then...
Date: 9 Feb 1997 15:16:51 GMT
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In article <32fcbf6e.554557@news.inreach.com>,
	spyguy@inreach.com (George Josol) writes:
> I'm having difficulty getting my BSD PPP to work. I followed the
> tutorial that's available at freebsd.org. My problem is once it dials
> out and appears to login to my ISP (I get the ok prompts) I then
> shell out and initiate a ping or whois command. 
> 
> My cursor just carraige returns to the next line, nada. I can ^C
> out of it and back to my shell. When I do a ps -e it shows that my PPP
> is running.

You're not using the shell command from within the ppp program itself, are
you?  Won't work!

Try switching to another virtual terminal and doing a ping.  Doing it from
ppp causes ppp to temporarily suspend.  I think the shell command is
provided mainly so you can go edit your config or whatever.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads