Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 20:28:39 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User PPP/PAP/static IP help Message-ID: <199802062028.UAA21712@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:32:15 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205180512.11157B-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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> Everything seems to be okay - the modem answers, PAP works and the user
> can ping anywhere and I can ping him from this network. The syslog
> entries, though, shows:
>
> Feb 5 17:41:52 Rigel routed[62]: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP ALLHOSTS: Address
> already in use
> Feb 5 17:41:52 Rigel routed[62]: setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP RIP):
> Address already in use
> Feb 5 17:41:52 Rigel routed[62]: punt RTM_ADD without gateway
> Feb 5 18:04:15 Rigel routed[62]: interface tun0 to xxx.xxx.xxx.9 turned off
>
> I have no way of checking if the REST of the world will see the user's
> correct address, however - will this work?
Yep - assuming your upstream provider routes packets for .100 to you.
> The other oddity is that I've enabled seperate logging, as:
>
> ---- /etc/syslog.conf
> !ppp
> *.* /var/log/ppp.log
>
> And that was working (found/fixed a lot of problems) except after I
> deleted the file - now all the info gets logged in the main message file
> instead. Creating a new /var/log/ppp.log by touching it results in it
> staying a 0-byte file. Killing PPP and/or restarting init seem to make no
> difference. How did I break the log?
It's owned by syslog(8). Check the man page. If you do anything
with any of these log files, you have to `killall -HUP syslogd'.
Look into newsyslog if you want to rotate them.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Dave
>
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