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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Chooka <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems with dial on demand PPP Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 20:23:23 +1100 Organization: Monash University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32E0968B.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ascend-1-19.cc.monash.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33974 I recently recompiled my kernel with the tun device nodes set to 5... I then decided to add to my /etc/rc.local file the following... /usr/sbin/ppp -auto provider This results in the following error message at boot time, something like SIOC??????: File already exists!! Why does this occur ? Furthermore, with a PPP session in progress (on tun0) any attempt to start another ppp (user mode) results in the following error being reported... Jan 18 20:11:06 t-rex /kernel: rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf08fca80) was (0xf0882500) What are the causes of these errors ??? Does the second indicate a problem with my kernel ??? Any advice appreciated.... Regards, David Henshaw dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au