Problems Connecting to the internet using FreeBSD

[Brian Somers]

> Right, I hit  a problem on the way...
> 
> First problem is with the line 'add default HISADDR', when that's in the
> ppp.conf I get this msg: ppp ON chewy> dial btconnect
> Warning: Add route failed: default already exists

Either remove the defaultrouter from /etc/rc.conf or change the 
``add'' to ``add!''.  See the man page.

> But without it connects fine, but I still couldn't ping anything, maybe
> due to the machine is routing through my win2k box already, that's
> another question, where about in bsd do I look at to stop it routing and
> just use the modem..

This is the same problem as above.

> Here's the log from when it did connect.
> 
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: Secondary nameserver set
> to 194.72.9.34
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: deflink: SendConfigReq(2)
> state = Ack-Sent
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP:  IPADDR[6]  217.32.158.140
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP:  COMPPROTO[6]  16 VJ slots
> with slot compression
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP:  PRIDNS[6]  194.74.65.68
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP:  SECDNS[6]  194.72.9.34
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: deflink: RecvConfigAck(2)
> state = Ack-Sent
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: deflink: State change
> Ack-Sent --> Opened
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: deflink: LayerUp.
> Apr 26 13:44:20 chewy ppp[13530]: tun3: IPCP: myaddr 217.32.158.140
> hisaddr = 213.120.208.204
> 
> Which ip is mine ? :|
> 
> Thanks for the help so far!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> William Cooper
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Ford [mailto:neil at ourshack.com] 
> Sent: 26 April 2001 13:29
> To: .
> Cc: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Problems Connecting to the internet using FreeBSD
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:44:03AM +0100, . wrote:
> > My /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
> > default:
> >  
> Okay, here's a version built from
> /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample. Try this and see how you get
> on.
> 
> <--- CUT HERE --->
> #
> # ppp.conf - 200/04/26 - Neil Ford (neil at yacsc.com)
> #
> default:
>  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
>  set device /dev/cuaa1
>  set speed 115200
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT \
>            OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
> 
> #
> # You *MUST* customise ``ISPphoneNo'', ``MyName'' and ``MyKey'' below. #
> btconnect:
>  set phone ISPphoneNo
>  set login
>  set authname MyName
>  set authkey MyKey
>  set timeout 120
>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
>  add default HISADDR
>  enable dns
> 
> <-- CUT HERE -->
> 
> Start ppp with the following command;
> 
> ppp -auto -nat btconnect
> 
> and then try pinging something and see if the modem dials. Check the
> logs and hopefully you'll see a successful connection. If not, post the
> log output and we'll take it from there.
> 
> Neil.
> -- 
> Neil Ford
> Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited
> neil at yacsc.com - http://www.yacsc.com

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