Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:26:56 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199512181826.LAA24031@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199512181816.SAA06921@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> References: <199512181800.LAA23978@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199512181816.SAA06921@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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[ user-land ppp dropping the routes ]
> .... it's failing to
> redial although I don't see how ppp would even get a chance to see the
> packet if the kernel doesn't know to send the packet out through tun0.
>
> Whatever the cause, dial-on-demand is broken and there's at least two
> of us seeing the problem.
Again, if you want to send me your configuration files I'll try and help
out.
> Is anyone else having any problems, the common factor between me and this
> other person is we both use Demon as our ISP.
It shouldn't make any difference since the dial-on-demand is all done at
the client side.
> > 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
>
> Well, I switched from kernel ppp to user-land ppp for similar reasons :-)
> That was back in 2.0 days though so I guess kernel ppp is a lot better now.
> Does it do dial-on-demand?
It does is you put it into a tight loop. :)
/etc/ppp/ppp0/Start
--------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# PPP Auto-Dialer script
#
# Note:
# Yyou *MUST* use -detach mode or else the pppd process will fork
# into the background and you will get hundreds of pppd processes trying
# to connect to the remote site. The current behavior causes the line to
# re-dial when pppd fails, so it acts like a auto-dialer.
#
PHONE=1234567
USER=Puser
PASSWORD=secret
DEVICE=cuaa0
while `true`; do
/usr/sbin/pppd sri.MT.net:micgate -detach \
connect 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/ppp0/chat' $DEVICE 115200
# If we fail, wait a little while for the line to settle down
sleep 15
done
--------------------
/etc/start_if.ppp0
------------------
# Starting up ppp link
echo "STARTING PPP connection to the World"
/etc/ppp/ppp0/Start &
------------------
This works quite well for us, although it does require that we uncomment
modem lines in /etc/rc.serial to setup line 0, and also modify the speed
to 115200.
Nate
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