From owner-freebsd-net Fri Sep 7 5:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D577A37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f87Ce7i28900; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:40:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f87Ce5J14931; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:40:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200109071240.f87Ce5J14931@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Hunt Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: PPP not adding an interface route In-Reply-To: Message from David Hunt of "Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:53:24 +0930." <3B984BBC.38C0FA7B@apdata.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:40:05 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi All > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.4-RC, compiled on the 7-september and have found > that PPP is not adding a local interface route when the link comes up. I > am using a legal subnet as follows: > > > tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::260:97ff:fe7b:3dc2%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa > inet 192.168.252.2 --> 192.168.252.1 netmask 0xfffffffc > Opened by PID 117 > > but the route table shows: > > bash-2.04# netstat -arn > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 180 lo0 > 192.168.6 link#1 UC 1 0 xl0 > 192.168.6.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 1 xl0 > 192.168.252.1 192.168.252.2 UH 2 59 tun0 ppp has never automatically added a lo0 route. If ppp detects an outbound packet destined for the local interface address and ``loopback'' is ``enabled'' (the default), it'll turn the packet around, but that's the extent of it's helpfulness. > Thanks > > David Hunt -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message