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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tips : Dynamic PPP On-Demand Setup
Date: 15 Dec 1996 02:41:59 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <58ujoe$9to@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
: In article <58t4j9$qnm@lantana.singnet.com.sg>,
: light@singnet.com.sg (Jason Tseng) writes:
>> Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Initialize the tun0 device to some dummy addresses by typing:
>>>> "ifconfig tun0 inet x.x.x.x y.y.y.y" at the shell prompt, where
>>>> x.x.x.x is your localhost address and y.y.y.y is some other dummy
>>>> address. eg.
>>>>
>>>> $ ifconfig tun0 inet 192.168.0.0 192.168.0.1
>>>>
>>>> * where 192.168.0.0 is my local host address. This address IS
>>>> IMPORTANT and must be the same as the one found in the hosts file.
>>>> * 192.168.0.1 is just a dummy address
>>
>>>This should be unnecessary. Also, an separate IP address for your own
>>>machine in /etc/hosts is unecessary. You can stick the hostname you
>>>chose (in /etc/sysconfig) as another alias for 127.0.0.1.
>>
>> i dont know if this has any implications. but i always get
>> "SIOCAIFADDR:Device not configured" when i start ppp in auto mode.
>>
>> so what is happening now, is that i need to ifconfig (not in
>> sysconfig) tun0 before calling ppp -auto. otherwise, nothing happens
>> at all even after a few minutes from my first ping. setting "route=NO"
>> will had the same effect even after ifconfig-uring tun0, so i have to
>> leave it as "route=routed".
:
: I've noticed the same behavior. It seems that without an external
: ifconfig, nothing ever reaches the interface. I've also seen the
: "SIOCAIFADDR:Device not configured" message intermittently.
:
: This is so crazy! Some people here are saying it should work without
: ifconfig/routed, but I'll be damned if I can get it to do so!
:
Can anyone who's experiencing this problem mail me their config files
(not forgetting to xxxx out passwords) please ? I don't know why this
is happening - as you say, it's crazy !
A copy of ppp.conf, ppp.linkup and ppp.secret would be nice along with
any other revelent bits about tun0 or invoking ppp.
TIA.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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