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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, 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.

Slap a `delete ALL' into your ppp.linkup.

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