Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:52:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages Message-ID: <19970920085241.59762@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970919172152.2eb72cb6@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk>; from David Goddard on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 05:13:40PM %2B0000 References: <3.0.1.16.19970919172152.2eb72cb6@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 05:13:40PM +0000, David Goddard wrote: > 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. This means you tried to add a default route (probably via /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup), but one was already set. Make sure that /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup contains something like: MYADDR: delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR I would guess that the 'delete ALL' is missing. > 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. If this is still a problem, I'd need to know more details. > 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. Probably not. This ppp isn't in the kernel. > 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 :-( The next edition will. It'll even contain a reference to exactly this problem :-) Greg
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