From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 16:53:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CE211A1E for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:53:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA24422; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:43:49 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01904; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:43:33 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199902190043.AAA01904@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Oles' Hnatkevych" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some PPP questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:55:04 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:43:33 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello! > > 1. I got receving messages like > ---- > Feb 18 15:19:13 gw ppp[3865]: tun0: Alert: Failed to open /dev/null: Too > many open files > ---- > Every time user is logged in via user PPP. but everything works > What it can be? > Already increased MAX_OPEN in kernel. Try ``sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=somethingbigger''. > 2. After user PPP disconnects (for example because of a bad line quality) > the TCP connections with client are not disconnected. is there a way > to terminate TCP connections when PPP connection gone? This is a feature... it allows reconnections without losing established connections (when static IPs are being used). If the bound address (local interface address) is removed, the connection will time out fairly soon. > Thank you. > > Best wishes, Oles Hnatkevych, http://gnut.kiev.ua -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message