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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
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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