10.7.2. Ppp won't dial in -auto mode

First, check that you've got a default route. By running http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?netstat name="netstat -rn">, you should see two entries like this:

Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
default            10.0.0.2           UGSc        0        0      tun0
10.0.0.2           10.0.0.1           UH          0        0      tun0
        

This is assuming that you've used the addresses from the handbook, the man page or from the ppp.conf.sample file. If you haven't got a default route, it may be because you're running an old version of ppp that doesn't understand the word HISADDR in the ppp.conf file. If your version of ppp is from before FreeBSD 2.2.5, change the

          add 0 0 HISADDR
        

line to one saying

          add 0 0 10.0.0.2
        

Another reason for the default route line being missing is that you have mistakenly set up a default router in your /etc/rc.conf file (this file was called /etc/sysconfig prior to release 2.2.2), and you have omitted the line saying

          delete ALL
        

from ppp.conf. If this is the case, go back to the Final system configuration section of the handbook.