From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 14:57:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B422716A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6605B43F93 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 3453 invoked by uid 1006); 30 Oct 2003 22:57:37 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 2.44. Clear:SA:0(-3.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.740187 secs); 30 Oct 2003 22:57:37 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 22:57:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 3367 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 22:57:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vandaliamo.net) (12.170.206.13) by -v with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 22:57:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA18D74.1000704@vandaliamo.net> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:15:16 -0600 From: Jay Hall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damian Gerow References: <62764.199.223.158.225.1067375764.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <20031028213746.GX94315@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20031028213746.GX94315@sentex.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mpd, ADSL and pptp X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:57:42 -0000 This does work, but after a short period of time (i.e. 5-10 minutes) I received a message stating ping: send to: out of buffer space. At that time, the mpd pptp connection dies, and I cannot reconnect until the machine is rebooted. Are there parameters that can be changed to tune the kernel so this does not happen? My google search did not reveal any answers that fixed the problem. Thanks for all your help. Jay Damian Gerow wrote: >Thus spake jhall@vandaliamo.net (jhall@vandaliamo.net) [28/10/03 16:16]: > > >>I am setting up a FreeBSD server to function as a agteway to the Internet >>as well as maintain the necessary tunnels to our corporate office. All of >>this should be accomplished over a DSL connection. >> >>I have setup mpd to make the PPPoE connection need to connect to the ADSL >>provider, and it is working without a problem. I am using ng0 for this >>connection. >> >>What is the best way to start natd after the connection to the DSL >>provider has been established? I am doing this manually right now for >>testing since I am looking at error messages, etc. >> >>I am currently using the following command to load natd. >> >>natd -interface ng0, where ng0 PPPoE connection. >> >> > >Look at 'set iface up-script': > > > > > >