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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages 
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:19:42 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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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