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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iglou!heathers.stdio.com!heathers.stdio.com!not-for-mail From: risner@heathers.stdio.com (James Risner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User PPP problems Date: 6 Mar 1996 02:52:28 -0500 Organization: Open World Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4hjg7s$she@heathers.stdio.com> References: <biswick.825785208@spaztic.stdio.com> <4hhqie$b76@helena.MT.net> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I am the guy at his other end. It is really odd. I can ping the world with 0% loss. I can ping HIM (Chad) from my freebsd box or my lan with 0% loss. My box is a 386-40 with 4 serial ports running PPP, no sio overflows logged (TTYHOG set to 16384), and uses about 50% CPU running 4 links. Chad and Kyle both have ping problems. they lose about 1 in 20 to anyone over the link. They can ping my machines and lose, while at the same time I am pinging their machines and not lose packets. I can log in over the net to their machine and ping and lose packets. I am really at a loss. Also, my most troubling (since the above does not cause problems, just delays) problem is they are sometimes having routing problems. It will sometimes (when they connect) set up the route correctly but send packets to the wrong tun device. On a ether to PPP tun device, what is the netmask? the mask of the destination network or the ethernet segment? ifconfig tun1 114.1 115.222 255.255.255.0 correct if 114.1 is masked at 255.0? or ifconfig tun1 114.1 115.222 255.255.255.224 correct if 115.222 is at 255.224? Because 115 is a chunk of 32 address subnets. 114 is a 254 chunk of addresses. 115 is used for client networks. 114 I use for in house and dialup IP guys (115 is dedicated) Risner