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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:17:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stefan Thor Hreinsson <stefan@islandia.is>
To: Red Barchetta <paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
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Subject: Re: iijppp error
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Hi.

I ran into the same problem.  So after searching the mail archives I found
a letter mentioning that this could be fixed by setting a larger buffer 
under route.c.  In line 360 of the 2.1.5 code, the line read:
 
  struct ifreq reqbuf[32];

so I increased it to read 320:

  struct ifreq reqbuf[320];

after recompiling this fixed my problem and 16 modems are running on my 
system and ppp works fine.  I'm not sure this relates to solving your
problem but try it out.

Regards
Stefan Thor Hreinsson

On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Red Barchetta wrote:

> I think I may have seen this discussed before, but I have followed the
> procedures in the handbook and I have been unable to locate the thread in the
> archives... so:
> 
> I am trying to set up user ppp on 2.1.5R.  My modem is on COM2 (and
> /dev/cuaa1 is appropriately listed in ppp.conf).  The problem is that when I
> type 'ppp' to start the thing, it prints out is usual bit about not finding
> ppp.secret and the like, then the last two messages are:
> 
> 	can't find ifindex.
> 	open_tun: no such file or directory
> 
> This happen whether or not I have a ppp.conf file in /etc/ppp and whether or
> not I have tun0 configured as a network device in /etc/sysconfig.  I had ppp
> up and working at least to the point where I got the "PPP on hostname>"
> prompt under 2.1.0R, but I blew that slice away and installed 2.1.5R fresh
> since I hadn't tweaked with 2.1.0R much.  
> 
> I'm sure this is something silly.  Can someone here give me a few pointers?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ernie Pistor
>