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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!howland.erols.net!torn!onlink3.onlink.net!pheebs.citytel.net!kwoody From: "Keith W." <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: process's and ppp0 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:06:54 -0700 Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink Lines: 31 Approved: Hopefully all the time! Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970421095619.14617A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970409112604.18002B-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> <5iiui6$d4p@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <Pine.A32.3.91.970413102144.15088A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> <5irhot$lti$1@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pheebs.citytel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5irhot$lti$1@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39454 On 13 Apr 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > Your router will be the other side of the PPP link. The "default > router" is essentially who you should send packets to when you don't > have a specific route. If you try to set up a router that's beyond > the other side of the ppp link, you'll need to have a static route > to that router (via the IP on the other side of the link). There's > no mileage to be gained in doing this though. It would just add another hop so to speak if that was done then? > The flags on mine are UGSc. The 'S' just means it's a static route. > Ok, whats the c mean then? :) > The ppp0 entry in sysconfig after install is now gone compliments of > Jordan. I've updated the info about connecting to an ISP in the man > page. If you're interested, you could get a copy of > > > If this doesn't help, can you post your config files ? Did and done it for the man page. I reinstalled again, and will try it all over again over the next few days. thanks for the info and the help. Be interesting to see if I can get this to work finally. I'll post my config files if I cant get this to work as a last resort. dont want to bug folks here too much, I like to try and figure these things out on my own if I can. thanks! Keith