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From: mcurry@fred.net ( )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP gateway
Date: 22 Jan 1997 00:32:46 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: mcurry@fred.net ( ) wrote:
:                  ^ you are a space? :-)
: 
: > The only clue I have is that route for subnet (in ijppp 'show route')
: > displays as 6.0.0.0, and the subnetted machines as 6.0.6.0 and 6.0.0.0,
: > alternately.  That looks like a netmask problem, but I am mystified as to
: > where or what.
: 
: That sounds very bogus.  What does your `netstat -rna' output look
: like?
: 

Normal.  And yes, I AM a space. Upper case, though. ;-)

The 'show route' that produces the 6.0.0.0 and 6.0.6.0 addresses come from
ijppp only, not netstat.  Still does, too, even though I now have
everything working reasonably well.

I changed to 'ppp -auto -alias ...' and everything works right. It seems
to me that I should not have to specify '-alias' when my subnet is not
using aliases; it's my assigned 16-address subnet. However, I'm guessing
that, since the ppp interface is 205.252.206.188, and the subnet is
205.177.223.16, something in ijppp does not like the arrangement.
Fiddling with the subnet mask had no effect.