From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 18 09:59:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA09622 for current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09617 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA23978; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:00:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:00:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199512181800.LAA23978@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Paul Richards Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current mailing list) Subject: Re: ppp In-Reply-To: <199512181658.QAA06312@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> References: <199512181658.QAA06312@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm having problems with PPP as is someone else I know, on a 2.1 system. > > Basically, if the line drops then it drops the default route from the > routing table and when you next try and use the net instead of it > re-dialing you get no route to host errors. Umm, if the line drops to your net connection, you have no route to host. This sounds like the correct response. > I can't find any way to get auto-dialing to work properly. I have to > kill ppp and re-start if manually (user-land ppp that is). Hmm, I didn't have any problems with it working when I tested it, although I wasn't happy with it locking up at times and dropping the connection. Since I needed something that worked 'all' the time, I am now using kernel ppp, and I've not had any problems. Someone (Mike Smith?) sent me some example scripts which helped me setup auto-login with kernel mode stuff, and I haven't had any problems since. > Killing ppp also has the side-effect of killing the X server. This makes > it a real pain to use. That's strange. I've not seen either of these problems. If you want I can try and help you debug it if you send me (privately) your ppp configuration files. Also, are you using internal/external modems? Nate