From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 02:25:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA28560 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 02:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from romeo.ic.ac.uk (romeo.ic.ac.uk [155.198.5.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA28555 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 02:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from judy.ic.ac.uk [155.198.5.5] by romeo.ic.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xD4jg-0007Uo-00; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:24:56 +0100 Received: from cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk (sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk [155.198.63.8]) by judy.ic.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id KAA25423; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:24:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from dmg by cscmgb.cc.ic.ac.uk (940816.SGI.8.6.9/4.0) id KAA28520; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:24:33 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970922102137.009934d0@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk> X-Sender: dgoddard@sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:21:37 +0100 To: Brian Somers From: David Goddard Subject: Re: ppp -auto problems and boot-time error messages Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199709212329.AAA03154@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 00:29 22/09/97 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >The latest version of ppp is available from >http://www.freebsd.org/~brian, it will understand the above "set log" >statement. Got it. I've also snarfed the latest version of the handbook from cdrom.com. The datestamp on all the files in the handbook tar file (and on the file itself) is 19 May, which had contributed to my impression that there wasn't much going on with the handbook. Should it not have a more recent date? All the files in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/ apparently have a datestamp of 19 May. This is what Netscape reports: Current directory is /pub/FreeBSD/docs Up to higher level directory FAQ-html.tar.gz 84 Kb Mon May 19 00:26:00 1997 FAQ.ascii 169 Kb Mon May 19 00:26:00 1997 FAQ.latin1 169 Kb Mon May 19 01:07:00 1997 FAQ.ps 287 Kb Mon May 19 00:26:00 1997 README 557 bytes Mon May 19 01:09:00 1997 handbook-html.tar.gz 391 Kb Mon May 19 00:27:00 1997 handbook.ascii 1000 Kb Mon May 19 00:27:00 1997 handbook.latin1 998 Kb Mon May 19 01:07:00 1997 handbook.ln 12 Kb Mon May 19 00:27:00 1997 handbook.ps 1578 Kb Mon May 19 00:28:00 1997 [...] >> set debug chat phase connect lcp ipcp ccp command tun >> # set debug phase carrier chat connect link >> # set debug carrier link phase >> set debug link > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Oops - you've just overridden the previous "set debug". Damn! I *knew* that would be something reaallly simple. Thanks. >> disable lqr > ^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is now the default - it's usually best not to have it. OK. [...] >> # add 0 0 155.198.8.0 # Commented out 20 Sep - this stopped boot msg > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is correct. You should remove the default route in sysconfig >instead. Hmmm.. that was how I started out, with the route added in ppp.conf and not in sysconfig, but all I got was 'no route to host' errors. After some fiddling, I tried setting the default router in sysconfig, and it worked. I'll try it the way you advise with the new version. [...] >> >Also, as of today, the FAQ has a section >(under networking) on ppp. Got that too. Note though my comments about date stamps above. >When you download the archive and "make install", the make file shows >you a README that describes the changes that may affect your current >config. Excellent. Thanks for your help. Hopefully my problem will disappear somewhere in the process of installing the new version. >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... Gotcha :-) Dave -- David Goddard ~ dmg@ic.ac.uk ~ goddard@acm.org Management Information Services ~ Tel: +44 (0)171 594 7282 Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ ~ Fax: +44 (0)171 594 7277 Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps