From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 15:11:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3C937B514; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA72769; Tue, 30 May 2000 23:13:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02705; Tue, 30 May 2000 23:12:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200005302212.XAA02705@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: gwq_uk@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP problem still! was PPP complains of invalid net mask??? In-Reply-To: Message from =?iso-8859-1?q?Greg=20Quinlan?= of "Tue, 30 May 2000 06:38:14 PDT." <20000530133814.1248.qmail@web1405.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:12:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know little about pppd, but it looks as if pppd is adding a route based on the supplied netmask. You don't mention the relevant IP numbers, but it sounds as if they're conflicting (one IP resides on another already-routable network). > Hi All, > > I sent this message a week ago but got no reply. Does > anyone out there have more than one PPP dialup link > working?? > > Or a straight forward way I can debug a pure CHAP > link? > > <<<< Original message below >>>> > > Recently while trying to set up a second PPP link > (ppp1) I encounted an error; PPP complained that the > netmask of 255.255.255.0 was invalid. > > I believe it may have something to do with the fact > that I already have one PPP link (ppp0) which has a > network mask of 255.255.255.128. > > I am using kernel ppp with - 'pppd file options.vpn' > as the command. > > Setting the netmask to 255.255.255.128 on the second > link (ppp1) allows the dialer script to dial and make > the connection, but this mask is not valid for the > client/gateway combination. Also, despite the fact > that I do NOT specify the 'defaultroute' option in > the second ppp link options file (options.vpn) pppd > attempts to add it giving an error: 'default route > exists' > > Anyone got a clue what's wrong. I am running 3.4S from > about midway through Feb/00. > > Thanks > > Greg > > ps. I'm not in the mailing list :( (could not cope > with the volume)ie. please include me in replies!! -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message