On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:38:10PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michael Vondung wrote: > Malcolm wrote: > > > Sould work if you use '\\\\', that is: AT&F\\\\N9 > > which the first interpretation reduces to: AT&F\\N9 > > Thank you! This worked indeed. After an hour of frustrating fiddling I also > figured out that the string I needed for this particular ISP was AT&F\N10 > rather than AT&F\N9 -- and yet another hour later I managed to figure out > that my user name needed to be in a different format (very cryptic and well > hidden on the ISP's pages) than the one used in the ISP's dialer software > for Windows. (User PPP is almost too verbose.) > > So, PPP now connects just fine. The only problem is that FreeBSD doesn't > recognise this connection as its primary connection to the Internet. Up > until this point, the FreeBSD box used the shared Internet connection of a > Windows XP system (a situation I'm attempting to reverse). Even when the PPP > connection is established, "ping", "traceroute", etcetera go via the LAN to > the XP box ... and time out because the XP machine doesn't have an active > connection to the Internet. Probably off topic under this subject line, but > would you know where I should start looking?
route(8) and netstat -rn Ask your ISP what to set your default route to, then set it in /etc/rc.conf (defaultrouter) and reboot. (You don't have to reboot, but that makes it easier). -- Josh > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
