Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:33:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: 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: <19970921103324.39855@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709201519.QAA16154@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 04:19:42PM %2B0100 References: <19970920121537.23696@lemis.com> <199709201519.QAA16154@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> 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. It still rambles a bit. I've just spent 20 minutes reading it, and yes, I found all of the things that you say. I'd guess that at least half the people who read it would miss some of it. Until just a few days ago, I thought it was impossible to set up automatic dialling with dynamic IP addresses. Also, the importance of the ' delete ALL' entry in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup is not made clear. /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample contains the following: # Otherwide, simply add peer as default gateway. # MYADDR: add 0 0 HISADDR Wouldn't it be a good idea to add the ' delete ALL' to this file? Greg
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