Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:19:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, 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: <199709201519.QAA16154@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:15:37 %2B0930." <19970920121537.23696@lemis.com>
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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.
Yes.... and what's that got to do with boot up messages ? The above
message is when the "route add default" fails. This fails because, I
would think /etc/start_if.tun0 is already there and has already added
a default route. All of this is explained in the handbook.
> > You want to read the handbook :-)
>
> We need to revise the handbook :-)
That's a bit of a gratuitous statement. What exactly is wrong with
it ? It's been revised several times recently.
> Greg
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