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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP (iijppp) and routing
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:45:21 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <timleeED1Dwo.MF6@netcom.com>,
nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
> brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk writes:
>|In article <timleeECzGL5.6Ms@netcom.com>,
>| nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
>|> brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk writes:
>|>|What does "netstat -rn" say ?
>|>
>|> Before using ppp:
>|>
>|> Routing tables
>|>
>|> Internet:
>|> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
>|> 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 UH 0 10 lo0
>|> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 14 lo0
>|>
>|> After connecting with ppp:
>|>
>|> Routing tables
>|>
>|> Internet:
>|> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
>|> default xxx.xxx.xxx.57 UGSc 0 0 tun0
>|> 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 UH 0 10 lo0
>|> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 14 lo0
>|> xxx.xxx.xxx.57 xxx.xxx.xxx.81 UH 1 0 tun0
>|>
>|> where xxx.xxx.xxx.57 is a SunOS 4.1.3 machine running pppd at the other
>|> end, and xxx.xxx.xxx.81 is the IP address assigned by the other end to
>|> the FreeBSD 2.2.1 machine. I cannot get to anything on xxx.xxx.xxx,
>|> including xxx.xxx.xxx.81, after connecting with ppp.
>|[.....]
>|
>|Ok, so this says that you're xxx.xxx.xxx.81 and the other side is
>|xxx.xxx.xxx.57.
>|
>|Is xxx.xxx.xxx.57 not the "IP address of the remote host" (from your
>|original question) ? telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.57 should work ok.
>
> It does not work. Neither do "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.81" or "telnet 127.0.0.1"
> or "telnet 10.0.0.2".
If telnet 127.0.0.1 doesn't work, it's not a ppp problem. Let me
guess, your DNS doesn't work. This is a common cause of telnet
connection delays. It eventually connects, but it takes a while.
> xxx.xxx.xxx.57 is the IP address of the remote host (the SunOS 4.1.3 machine
> running pppd). BTW, others have done PPP connections to xxx.xxx.xxx.57 with
> PPP programs running on other OSes.
>
>|As far as the local IP is concerned, you can't get
>|at xxx.xxx.xxx.81 without a line in ppp.linkup:
>|
>|add MYADDR 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1
>
> I added this line to $HOME/.ppp.linkup ; it had no effect.
>
> Giving that line on the ppp command line appears to hang it (only kill -9
> will unhang it).
>
>|I'm assuming you've got a recent ppp - there's one on
>|http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970701.tar.gz.
>|The MYADDR stuff above won't work for FreeBSD <= 2.2.2.
>
> I have FreeBSD 2.2.1 and the ppp program that came with the 2.2.1 CD
> distribution in "The Complete FreeBSD" book.
As I said (quoted 4 lines ago):
>|The MYADDR stuff above won't work for FreeBSD <= 2.2.2.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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