Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:21:52 From: David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.19970919172152.2eb72cb6@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk>
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Hi, I'm having a problem with ppp -auto and also a couple of odd boot-time error messages - I suspect there may be a connection. Maybe. Firstly, the odd messages are: writing to routing socket: File exists add net default: gateway 155.198.8.0: File exists These appear just after ppp -auto is started up - I have the default router set in sysconfig to the above IP address. What file is this? I can't seem to find anything that could be the cause, nor any reference. I've been running ppp -auto successfully for a while, but it's recently started playing up. The problem is that the process that causes the ppp link to be brought up doesn't seem to recognise that it's up and eventually times out. The link itself comes up OK, as I can use it fine with other processes. I've recently been fiddling with filters and the problem surfaced at about the same time as this, but I've removed my filter references from ppp.conf. The ppp show ifilter, dfilter etc. commmands tell me there are no filters. I've also rebuilt my kernel since the ppp problem started, but before I noticed the boot messages, if this is relevant. As an aside, last Saturday I ordered Greg Lehey's FreeBSD book from Walnut Creek and it arrived here in the UK yesterday. Needless to say I was impressed by the turnaround time. Shame it doesn't have anything on networking though :-( Another aside - I got the FreeBSD News newsletter with the book - a good bit of PR, I thought. It doesn't say anywhere on it what was used to produce it - was it done with FreeBSD or did they resort to a Mac or something? :-) (not very relevant to questions@ though I guess...) Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give. Dave
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