On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Oliver wrote:

> I would expect that the Gateway would look in its /etc/hosts first and if no
> entry fit then it should connect to my ISP and ask then nameservers. Again -
> I try to telnet from my FreeBSD host to my NetBSD box no telnet session will
> be established but the link to my ISP via ppp is coming up. Why?

Can you run the following (as root) on the NetBSD machine before trying to
telnet from the FreeBSD box:

	# tcpdump -n -i ppp0

The output from that will indicate exactly what sort of traffic is
bringing the PPP interface up. That should give more of a clue what's
going on. You may need to build a kernel with the "bpfilter" pseudo device
enabled to get this to work.

Cheers, Steve