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#! rnews 1743 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!usenet From: rich@sans.vuw.ac.nz (Richard Bain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: pppd problems Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 06:22:02 GMT Organization: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32116e1c.354846@news.vuw.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp6.sans.vuw.ac.nz X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 I am having some troubles setting up pppd at home to connect to my internet provider, under FreeBSD 2.1.0R, with dynamic IP allocation Here is my options file from /etc/ppp/options: /dev/modem 38400 connect "/usr/bin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/sample.chat" crtscts defaultroute mru 296 netmask 255.255.255.0 noipdefault ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote and this is what is in the /var/log/messages file: Aug 14 18:03:02 houston pppd[221]: pppd 2.1.2 started by rich, uid 0 Aug 14 18:03:35 houston pppd[222]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Aug 14 18:03:44 houston pppd[222]: input: Unknown protocol (80fd) received! Aug 14 18:03:47 houston pppd[222]: local IP address 202.20.76.134 Aug 14 18:03:47 houston pppd[222]: remote IP address 202.20.76.11 Aug 14 18:03:47 houston pppd[222]: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): Address already exists Aug 14 18:04:00 houston pppd[222]: Connection terminated. The confusing thing for me is that this did work for a while, and then started throwing up the "ioctl(SIOAIFADDR)" error (does anyone know what this means?) I didn't think I had changed anything, and I am sure that my service provider hadn't either, but this is obviously not the case. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? thanks, Rich.