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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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