Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:19:11 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: User-ppp on 3.4-Stable Message-ID: <199912202319.XAA25413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:23:43 PST." <385D68FF.58570580@3-cities.com>
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> I ran into a problem today with user-ppp. I was reading about ppp and
> that is when I got into trouble :). The message log keeps taking about
> -alias being depricated and so I was trying to get aliasing to work with
> NAT. That is when I started getting the following message
Check your release notes. They mention that -alias is now -nat.
-alias continues to work, but it issues a warning.
> Dec 19 14:36:45 ruby ppp[454]: Warning: No available tunnel devices
> found (Device busy)
>
> This didn't occur on 3.3S, when I used pppctl to close down user-ppp. At
> least, I don't remember ever seeing that message before.
Ppp is still running - ps will tell you its process id....
> User-ppp seems
> to be very sensitive to rebooting the system while it is still running.
> I have it configured, from the sample.conf, to use /var/run/internet and
> that local domain socket is left around if it shuts down badly.
What do you mean by ``badly'' ? Ppp only handles certain signals
(see the man page). If you start sending other signals, ppp will
take the default action.
> User-ppp
> won't start if it already exists. It is a simple matter to cd to
> /var/run and rm it, which will allow ppp to start.
Ppp will start, it'll just fail to create a diagnostic socket.
> It is easy to make
> ppp leave /var/run/internet. All you have to do is use top to kill the
> process. The system was cvsup'ed on 18 Dec (19 Dec UTC) and the make
> world was done on 19 Dec.
And how are you killing it (see above) ?
> When I tried starting user-ppp with the -nat option, I didn't get
> aliasing for my other systems. I figure I am missing something but don't
> know what. The -alias still works but I want to switch to the curent
> style.
-nat and -alias are synonymous - except that -alias warns that it's
deprecated.
> Thanks.
>
> Kent
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