From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 04:13:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA20458 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:13:47 -0700 Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (root@asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA20452 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:13:44 -0700 Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.6.12/BSD4.4) id VAA18836; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 21:12:07 +1000 From: michael butler Message-Id: <199509241112.VAA18836@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: Re: pppd server with dynamic ip assignment To: ck@toplink.de (Christian Kratzer) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 21:12:04 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509241032.LAA01183@toplink1.toplink.net> from "Christian Kratzer" at Sep 24, 95 11:32:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1591 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Christian Kratzer writes: > Some time ago I hacked a small Extension to pppd that has been performing > quite well. I would like to contribute it to freebsd. Yes, please :-) Fixing an IP address to each modem, whilst it's simple, is not the way I want to do things .. > After fighting with the broken proxyarp option in pppd for two weeks we now > implement proxy arp using the following ip-up and ip-down scripts. Why do you need proxy-arp ? I haven't found any need for it since the patch to enable a netmask of 255.255.255.255 in pppd was posted (in '-current'). I don not know if the same patch has propagated into -stable. I suspect that proxy-arp combined with using the same address for ppp interfaces as ethernet doesn't get on at all well. Actually, I prefer to have all my dial-ins allocated out of a subnet that isn't the same as my "home" subnet(s) as I can then use fewer IPFW rules to prevent access to things. > I do also have a question for hackers that might be a good thing to solve > once we are at it. Every time a users disconnects from pppd we get a list > of error messages to the console. Is this a bug with 2.0R ? > Sep 23 21:28:15 mail pppd[25600]: ioctl (PPPIOCGFLAGS): Inappropriate > ioctl for device I've used pppd with '-stable' and '-current' but I don't see this, only gated complaining about a route that was there when it last looked and that isn't any more because pppd deleted it :-) I'm using mgetty on the cuaa devices, however, because the same lines also take inbound fidonet callers .. Perhaps '-stable' is worth a peek ? michael