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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: David Goddard <d.goddard@ic.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:04:22 PDT."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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.

The above message is from the "route add default" done as a result of 
the default router setup.  If the default route already exists, it 
must be because ppp has already been started via start_if.tun0.  The 
answer is to remove the default route from sysconfig.

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