Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:34:32 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Nicholson <robert@steffi.mnsinc.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP Message-ID: <199602252334.SAA00316@steffi.mnsinc.com>
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OK, if anybody knows an easy way to view the handbook without a web
browser please let me know...
Anyway, I've just tried to get ppp going with tun0 and I think I'm
prepared to give up and go with what I know and try straight pppd
instead. The routing seemed to be wrong with tun0 as no packets were
going out.
Also, what's putting all that traffic over the wire when I'm not
really using the link?
Did anybody else choose to do the same?
The way I'm use to setting things up is like this.
assining a bogus ip address to my machine.
such that my hosts table looks like.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
206.55.3.15 news1.mnsinc.com news1 news
192.42.172.1 steffi.mnsinc.com steffi
192.42.172.1 is totally bogus...
ifconfig -a reports.
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 192.42.172.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255
ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
NOTE: en0
I only should be telling ppp what my internet address is... /etc/hosts
should need to know about this.
When the link is down netstat -rn reports.
steffi:33# netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 255 lo0
192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 4 807 en0
When the link is up
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
199.164.210.1 206.239.33.180 UH 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 6 287 lo0
206.239.33.180 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
default 199.164.210.1 UG 1 9 ppp0
192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 6 898 en0
so I'm going to copy this configuration over and I'm assuming it will
work. I'm thinking perhaps the kernel needs to be configured to use
pppd or a loadable module must be loaded?
--
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