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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:18:31 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "Taras M. Dowhaluk" <tarasd@visiondb.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to enable Multi-link PPP 
Message-ID:  <199909160718.IAA01029@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:56:24 %2B1000." <199909152157.HAA16128@m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au> 

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The first thing that jumps out is that you're using two different 
login names.... is this really required ?

To see what's happening with MP negotiations, enable lcp logging.  If 
your MRRU option is rejected, the server doesn't do MP.

> G'day list,
> 
> I have 3.2-RELEASE and using Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 3rd 
> Edition plus resources on www.freebsd.org (and links) and this list it was a 
> doddle to configure this box with ipfw, nat, dns, sendmail, pppd, etc etc etc. 
> At the moment I use pppd to connect to our ISP (I can't remember why I 
> picked pppd over ppp).
> 
> Anyhow, I now want to use ppp and multi-link ppp to aggregate the 2 
> modems to our ISP on the assumption that it will give us greater bandwith.
> I'll start with my ppp.conf below, I won't post the 400+ lines of log output 
> unless required.
> 
> When I start ppp thus, "ppp -ddial mp":
> 1. both logins seem to be made,
> 2. tun0 is brought up, netstat -rn appears as for a single-link ppp, the log 
> shows
> tun0: IPCP: myaddr aaa.bbb.ccc.146 hisaddr = aaa.bbb.ccc.1
> 3. query to the diagnostic port "show mp" reveals that multi-link ppp isn't 
> enabled,
> 4. ping from the tun0 interface works OK,
> 5. there is no socket created in /var/run.
> 
> To prove single-link ppp is OK, I have 2 other ppp.conf sections, mp0 and 
> mp1, which connect just fine on tun0 and tun1, and I can ping out of either 
> interface.
> 
> As an aside, I find it a bit odd that my ISP returns the _same_ remote 
> address for each link. We are given 2 addresses aaa.bbb.ccc.146 and 
> aaa.bbb.ccc.147, by default he always returns aaa.bbb.ccc.1, so I force the 
> 147 remote address to be aaa.bbb.ccc.2 and get no complaint.
> 
> Is there a command I'm missing from ppp.conf (below), and what do I look for 
> in the log to tell me why multi-link ppp failed to be established.
> 
> TIA, taras
> 
> 
> /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
> 
> default:
>  disable lqr
>  allow mode direct
>  set log Connect ID0 Command TUN Chat
>  set speed 115200
> 
> mp:
>  set socket 10000 bollocks
>  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
>  set openmode active 5
>  set speed 115200
>  set phone ppppppppp
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT \
>            OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT"
>  set ifaddr aaa.bbb.ccc.146/24
>  add default HISADDR
>  set timeout 120
>  set authname xxxxxx1
>  set authkey  xxxxxxxx
>  set mrru 1500
>  clone cuac00, cuac01
>  link deflink remove
>  link cuac00 set device /dev/cuac00
>  link cuac00 set mode ddial
>  link cuac00 set login "ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 name:--name: 
> xxxxxx1 word: xxxxxxxx net 1"
>  link cuac01 set device /dev/cuac01
>  link cuac01 set mode ddial
>  link cuac01 set login "ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 name:--name: 
> xxxxxx2 word: xxxxxxxx net 1"

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk>




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