From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 18:31:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-87.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A956A14E09 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA06438; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:47:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02560; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:48:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910142348.AAA02560@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Larry Berland Cc: Brian Somers , "D.Schneider" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP dialup problems In-Reply-To: Message from Larry Berland of "Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:27:49 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:48:57 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The ifconfig_tun0 setting is pretty much redundant. If ppp is started, it'll configure the interface. If it's not, there's no point in assigning IP numbers to it. It's the start_if.tun0 script that does the actual deed ;-) > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > Your rc.conf should contain an entry for tun0 > > > so with your rc that'd be > > > network_interfaces="xl0 lo0 tun0" > > > then ifconfig_tun0="ppp -auto provider" > > > > This will not work :-/ > > > > > or better yet instead of the second line could be replaced by making the > > > file start_if.tun0 which contains just > > > > > > ppp -auto provider > > > > But this will :-) > > > > There are hooks to enable ppp in rc.conf in 3.3 and above. > > Oooops, haven't setup ppp on a 3.3 system, and the first part worked fine > on that, perhaps things have changed...someone should probably update the > handbook. Will the ifconfig_tun0 line work or is all of that wrong? [.....] -- 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