Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:15:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: Dr Freebsd <hometeam@techpower.net>, David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages Message-ID: <19970920121537.23696@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709200157.CAA04672@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 02:57:50AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919012234.896A-100000@hometeam.techpower.net> <199709200157.CAA04672@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 02:57:50AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> Firstly, the odd messages are: >> >> writing to routing socket: File exists >> add net default: gateway 155.198.8.0: File exists >> >> This is just telling you the default route is set is all. >> If you set this gateway in your rc.conf you will get host unreachable at >> boot time. > > This sounds like you've got an "ifconfig_tun0=" line with something > on it. Read the handbook. You want an empty "ifconfig_tun0=" and an > empty default router. You want to disable routed and then create > /etc/start_if.tun0 and put your ppp -auto command in there. Not necessarily. If he's using -auto with dynamic IP addressing, he want to guess a destination IP address and make it his default route. When he initiates dialing, ppp will remove that route and replace it with the correct one. > You want to read the handbook :-) We need to revise the handbook :-) Greg
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