From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 26 8: 3:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1B337B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (newnet.co.uk [212.87.80.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C539843E4A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Received: from kandy (cantbob.jamiesdomain.org.uk [213.131.191.130] (may be forged)) by newnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g7QF2oQn043034; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:02:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Message-ID: <009401c24d11$a7850290$82bf83d5@kandy> From: "Jamie Heckford" To: "Fabrizio Ravazzini" , References: <20020826145143.80770.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ppp -auto -nat Gateway routing problem Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:02:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Newnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Possibly a DNS issue? Try running tcpdump to see what traffic is triggering the dialup. Maybe try banging your own IP addresses into /etc/hosts to speed things up a bit. Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Ravazzini" To: Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: ppp -auto -nat Gateway routing problem > Hello all. I've done a Gateway on FreeBSD4.5 for a > small lan, connecting to Internet with a 56K modem. > On this gateway I've installed also qmail,pop3 and > courier imap for send and receive(fetchmail) mails > from internet. > This the scheme: ed0 > Internet----56Kmodem--Fbsdbox---------------LAN > 192.168.0.1 192.168.0/24 > > The problem is that when the modem is disconnected, if > I try for example to "telnet 192.168.0.1 25" from a > machine on the Lan to test q-mail, the q-mail server > takes a very very long time to respond me. > And if the modem is also light-up, he attempt to > connect to internet. > When the modem is connected to internet all works > well. > I use user-ppp in this way: > ppp -auto -nat provider (or with flags in rc.conf) > > Looking at the routing tables I see that the default > route is the 10.0.0.2, right because of the ppp. > If I delete the default route ("route delete default") > the q-mail daemon responds ok and also pop and imap, > but the ppp doesn't work because I deleted the default > route. > This is the output of "netstat -rn": > > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire > default 10.0.0.2 UGSc 0 0 tun0 > 10/24 link#1 UC 0 0 dc0 > 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.1 UH 1 0 tun0 > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0 > 192.168.0 link#3 UC 0 0 ed0 > > ~snip IPV6 > > > And this is the /etc/rc.conf: > gateway_enable="YES" > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="OPEN" > hostname="Walrus.Gsg" > ppp_enable="YES" > ppp_mode="auto" > ppp_nat="YES" > ppp_profile="provider" > inetd_enable="YES" > kern_securelevel_enable="NO" > keymap="it.iso" > linux_enable="YES" > moused_enable="NO" > moused_type="NO" > nfs_reserved_port_only="NO" > sendmail_enable="NO" > sshd_enable="YES" > ifconfig_dc0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > Anybody knows what do I have to do to make the qmail > and other servers have a faster response and Internet > connection working? > > Thanks all > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Scarica il nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: con webcam, nuove faccine e tante altre novità. > http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.messenger.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message