From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 29 04:41:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05931 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:41:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05923 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16649; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:41:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma016618; Wed, 29 Apr 98 06:41:32 -0500 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA17782; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:41:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:41:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery To: The Hermit Hacker cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd problem with ppp -alias ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Now, if I try to telnet from Machine B to A, with no default route > set, it works fine. As soon as I set a default route for machine B to > point at Machine A, it no longer works. > > *If* I startup 'ppp -auto -alias ', the routing > works fine *but* I'd prefer not to have to keep the connection up 24/7... > I have seen this same problem. The solution is to make sure you delete the default route on machine A when the ppp link is not up. That should allow you to telnet from B to A when the ppp link is down. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group "Keep honking, I'm reloading." "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message