Subject: Re: Difficulty understanding internet in BSD
To: John Baber <jbaber@math.jhu.edu>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/25/2005 13:18:14
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:00:01AM -0500, John Baber wrote:
> Hello,
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>   netBSD is my first install of any *nix.  I'd like to use my DSL, but I'=
m=20
> too painfully ignorant.
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> I can follow the directions at
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> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/pppoe/
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> and everything works.  But I can't actually use lynx or anything.  I=20
> noticed that it doesn't matter what I put for authname and authsecret, I=
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> get the same positive result.
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> Where can I find an explanation, a walkthrough, or a book?

First of all, what does lynx say?  "No route to host", "Unknown host"?
Something else?

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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