Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:01:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Nicholson <robert@elastica.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP... how does it work? Message-ID: <199605281201.IAA03445@justine.elastica.com>
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Hi, is there any body on this list that has a good understanding as to
how PPP works?
I ask because of all the times I've setup PPP I've only ever got it
going properly this way...
I've always have to configure my en0 regardless that I don't use
it. I've find that relying on just the PPP interface and lo0 never
works.
Here's how it's configured under NeXTSTEP. Similarly configured under
FreeBSD but I'd be interested in knowing how things should be
configured with en0.
So, here's some information.
root:/tmp/tape>ifconfig -a
7:55
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=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
inet 204.97.69.153 --> 204.97.64.1 netmask ffffff00
ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
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Note: the bogus 192 address for en0
Here's my hosts.
root:/tmp/tape>nidump hosts /
7:56
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
192.42.172.1 justine.elastica.com justine
204.97.64.3 news.dgsys.com news
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Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
204.97.64.1 204.97.69.153 UH 0 202 ppp0
204.97.69.153 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 789 lo0
default 204.97.64.1 UG 1 718 ppp0
192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 8 3627 en0
Could somebody please explain static routing with the above examples
to me?
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Now, I've always had to configure en0 because I need to refer to
justine, justine.elastica.com when the interface is offline
. ie. sendmail, inn etc.
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So, if you aren't using your NIC I'd be interested in hearing how
you've configured PPP.
also, I ask all of this because I'm having a bitch of a time getting
dp-4.0 and Solaris 2.5 working under Solaris x86.
Can anybody explain why snoop reports that all trafic I send out via
my remote gateway turns out to be ETHER packets?
I do not have le0 configured under Solaris so I'm confused why snoop
reports all of these unknown 9945 ether type packets.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Thank you.
--
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