From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 11:27:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08076 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:27:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08044 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19429; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:26:51 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05048; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:38:58 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810291638.QAA05048@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bill Hamilton cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: device busy (ppp question) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:08:40 CST." <36374F98.76731DFC@finsco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:38:58 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is 2.2.7 (new install). > When I try to "ppp -auto pmdemand" and ftp someplace, I get: > working in auto mode > no tunnel device available (device busy) > Warning: OpenTunnel: no such file or directory > > The tun0 device is set up. Why is it busy? How do I make it unbusy? kill $(cat /var/run/tun0.pid) > I was using -auto mode because -direct gives me a message about > a null destination system. -direct is for incoming ppp. > If I just want to use PAP, what is the best way to fire up PPP? > On the ppp command line, where does the PAPorChapConnect label placed? Is the synopsis in the man page unclear ? ppp PAPorCHAPpmdemand or ppp -auto PAPorCHAPpmdemand or ppp -background PAPorCHAPpmdemand -- 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