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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some PPP and Routing Problems Date: 13 Feb 1997 02:37:36 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5dtupg$e3q@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <seth.leigh-1002971332000001@s_leigh.dtint.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.109 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35554 Caveat: this is *not* a helpful followup at all! :-) In article <seth.leigh-1002971332000001@s_leigh.dtint.com>, seth.leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh) writes: > Hi all. > > I too have fought long and hard, and thought I was finally set up with PPP > on-demand running. But now there are problems I just can't understand. I can sympathize. :-) [ stuff about changing working setup deleted ] > Now I have several problems. Worst of which is that I didn't backup this > files before dorking around with them, and I can't remember EXACTLY how > they were set up when things _seemed_ to be working. My problem as well. I totally hosed my FreeBSD drive not too long ago, and now I can't remember for the life of me how I had my ppp.conf setup to do on-demand dialing (dynamic IP). Been fiddling with it for the last two days now, and still no go. > Anyways, if anybody can be so kind as to give me a good idea on how to > understand the exact relationship between the /etc/sysconfig file, the > /etc/hosts file, the hostname of the FreeBSD machine, the ppp.conf file, > etc., I would be much obliged. As would I also. :-) Damn, we *desperately* need better docs on this stuff! -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads