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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP problems - "Dial on Demand" won't dial
Date: 4 Mar 1997 17:39:14 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5fd13j$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> layne@cnj.digex.net (Darren Layne) wrote:
>
>> However, when I go to look for things outside my domain, ppp does not
>> automatically dial up my ISP.
>
> You probably didn't tell it to establish a default route?
Sounds about right, but the new example files have "add 0 0 HISADDR"
in both ppp.conf and ppp.linkup.
What does the log file say (/var/log/ppp.log) ? After ppp is running,
what does "netstat -rn" say ?
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !