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From: tsuess@inspace.net (Todd Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Continuing Sage
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:44:14 GMT
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Greets all,
In the continuing Saga of the defective sysinstall in 2.2.2, I found a
new problem..   I decided to totally trash my install and reinstalled
2.2.2-RELEASE, using the site at freebsd.cdrom.com to grab everything
from.  Install went great, no problems at all, except for one thing..
I did everything exactly the same I did on the previous 2 installs,
except now my PPP dialup to my ISP refuses to function.  I can dial up
and connect fine, and everything appears normal, including name
service lookups, but regardless of the destination, I get NO ROUTE TO
HOST.  Seeing as I did everything the same way, I am confused why it
worked fine the last 2 installs and refuses to this time..  The only
thing I can think of, is in the sysinstall network setup, where it
asks for domain, ip, etc. the first time I ran it, I filled in
everything as normal, but I don't remember getting the question from
sysinstall that asks for the Internet Address of my Internet Service
Provider, and to enter "0" if you want the connect to be negotiated
automatically.  Where does sysinstall put the "0" if you want to
autonegotiate?  I looked at my routing table in PPP, and it looks ok,
but I didn't see a route to the gateway on the Terminal Service I was
calling in on.  I saw local routes from my machine to the Terminal
Server I dialed it to, etc..   Any suggestions would be most helpful.
NOTE: I am using PPP in interactive mode until I get a script working,
so keep that in mind, please..  The only thing that really bugs me is
that it worked PERFECTLY the last two installs, and this time, nada..

Todd