ppp issues

["Bob McIlvaine" <suemac@empire.net>]

Hi all,

Well, my ppp is now working after a fashion. It does on 
demand dial up and gets the routes and DNS. I still need to 
figure out the re-dial for no dial tone and other error handling.

I have to admit the main source of my problem was definitely 
newbie stuff. I was in ppp interactive mode for debugging 
and thanks to a reference in the FreeBSD handbook was 
using ^Z to get to the command line. This was not 
backgrounding as I was expecting, but suspending the ppp 
process...so it would appear that things like ping and telnet 
weren't working. Hopefully, this email will end up in the 
archive and prevent someone from making the same 
mistake. Thanks go to Alexander Farber for his patience.

Now, I have ppp "nat enable yes" and ip forwarding enabled. 
But other PC's on my net can't see the DNS or ping an ip on 
the web. At this point I'm trying to get out from a PC runing 
WindozeXP and have set it's gateway to the internal ip of the 
box running ppp and set it's dns pri & Sec. to those specified 
by the isp (same setting as on the ppp box in resolv.conf).

This PC can get to the ppp box just fine, ping, etc.

What have I missed?

Thanks,
Mac

Bob "Mac" McIlvaine
36 Parker Rd.
Brookline, NH 03033
Phone: 603-673-5861
e-mail: suemac@empire.net