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From: jpg@django.inria.fr (Jean-Patrick Giacometti)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD, pppd 2.0, ifconfig, interface must be set 'up' by hand?
Date: 31 May 1994 16:52:47 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (France)
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Hi there, I am running FreeBSD 1.1-RELEASE and have a couple of PCs connected
thru tty00. I want to run pppd version 2.0  on the line. Almost everythimg works
but the fact I must set (on both sides) the interface 'up' by hand -- 'ifconfig ppp0 up'.
Upon starting pppd warns "Could not determine local IP address" on both sides but
stays running. I set each ppp0 interface with correct (?) addresses, say
'ifconfig ppp0 inet slc100 slc401 netmask 255.255.255.240' on first host and
'ifconfig ppp0 inet slc401 slc100 netmask 255.255.255.240' on other.
On both sides pppd 2.0 is started as
'/usr/libexec/pppd passive /dev/tty00 115200'

Thanks for any help

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J.-Patrick Giacometti, Full sig: finger jpg@pax.inria.fr