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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: YAP (Yet Another PPP problem)
Date: 8 Feb 1997 13:29:27 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.970207225707.23822B-100000@shrike.depaul.edu>,
Lucas D Adamski <ladamski@shrike.depaul.edu> writes:
> I did disable routed and also removed tun0 from the network= line in
> sysconfig. But then I ran into an infuriating little problem.. namely,
> PPP on-demand refused to work (kept getting 'no route to xx.yy.zz'). I
> waste many an hour trying to get it to work, till I noticed an odd
> coincidence. The only time ppp -auto worked was after I ran ppp -auto
> ondemand, which is the static IP addressing version. If I tried either my
> own one or the example provided (ppp -auto pmdemend) first, I always got
> not route to host errors. But after I dialed out once with ppp -auto
> pmdemend (no network connection was made though since I can't have a
> static IP address, but it at least dialed), I could kill the ppp process
> and run one with my dynamic IP addressing, and it dialed out just fine.
>
> Finally I tried using something like 'set ifaddr 140.192.0.1/16 etc...' in
> ppp.conf, so that it would have a fixed route but the server could assign
> it a different address, and it finally worked. For whatever reason, 'set
> ifaddr 0 etc...' did not work.
Yes, there seems to be one major difference between dial-on-demand ppp and
"regular", in that DOD needs some valid route to start off with. You're
right; set ifaddr 0 0 won't work with DOD. In my case, I used the
localhost address, and it worked just fine.
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads