Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 11:50 PDT From: pete@pelican.altadena.net (Pete Carah) To: dashadow@tchnet.tchnet.com Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <m0u9yme-0000RhC@pelican.altadena.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960418113855.20379A-100000@tchnet.tchnet.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960418113855.20379A-100000@tchnet.tchnet.com> you write: >I have a few questions that I would like some help with if possible. >First, I need to setup a UUCP connection for a local business in our >area, yet I have no prior knowledge of UUCP at all. I have read the man >pages, and all I could determine from them is that I need their account >setup as uucico. Could anyone explain the process in which I need to go >about to set this up correctly? What OS/uucp is at the other end? (it does matter somewhat) Also, print out the texinfo pages from taylor uucp (I don't know if the texinfo source is included in our distribution but if not get it from prep.ai.mit.edu...) (or have a good 'info' reader if you can't get tex stuff printed...) I have the stock -stable uucp here talking to other fbsd boxes with Taylor uucp also, Sun's with HDB (one Solaris and one 4.1.3), and two waffle systems under DOS (and uupc under dos for a while; he finally converted to fbsd); it works fine to all of them. Then send me (or maybe others as needed) direct mail giving some particulars. I can give some sample entries for the uucp config/dial/port/sys files that work here (with site names/passwords changed to protect the innocent :-) Also if your customer has ever set up uucp connections already, it would be *VERY* helpful (if both of you are first-time uucp admins it is significantly harder...). And be *glad* that Ian Taylor did such a good job of documentation; in the old days (mid '80's and before) all there was to set uucp up from was the old Nowitz paper (he's the D of HDB), which was "kind of helpful". --------------------- >The other question is we have a local BBS that connects to us via a PPP >connection. We assigned a static IP address for him, and he can connect >perfectly the first time, until he gets cut off, then he tries to connect >and it lets him in, and correctly assigns the IP address, but does not >allow connections to him or from him. After looking in the logs I found >this in the messages file: > >local IP address: 198.109.196.2 >remote IP address: 198.109.196.6 >ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): Address already exists >found interface ed1 for proxy arp >add proxy arp entry: File exists > >I cannot seem to find the problem with this, anyone have an idea? Upgrade to -stable. It's fixed there... As a preliminary workaround I had a cron script that went around every 2 minutes and did arp -d on any line that contained the word 'incomplete' :-( (you only have to upgrade one module, whose name I've seen on this list, but there are other fixes in there too...) -- Pete
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