ppp connection

[Colin Alston]

tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

Seems the ppp connection has obviously failed

man ppp

and make sure you set it up properly...

Did you not notice any errors?

otherwise "tail -40 /var/log/ppp.log" and try see what went wrong.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr at xprt.net>
To: <matthew at starbreaker.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: ppp connection


> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 16:23, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> > On Friday 18 July 2003 06:00 pm, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >  trying to get my ppp connection to work
> > >
> > > And nothing happens
> > >
> > > Any ideas??
> >
> > It sounds like you're trying to use kernel ppp. Use "user ppp"
> > instead. Edit /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to set the modem device, phone
> > number, userid, and password. Then invoke it with "ppp -foreground
> > papchap".
> >
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> This is what I get now..
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> rl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         ether 00:4f:4e:05:32:b6
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
>         status: no carrier
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> faith0: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
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> I can't ping anyone.
>
> TIA
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> > --
> > Matthew Graybosch
> > http://www.starbreaker.net
> > "I am become root, shatterer of kernels."
> >
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> Marvin J. Kosmal
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