From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 16:08:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14269 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA14261 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from P60 by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id SAA14297; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:05:13 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970317180335.010a98e8@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:03:36 -0600 To: Alastair Rankine From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: ppp -auto problem? on 2.1.5-RELEASE Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:43 AM 3/18/97 +1100, Alastair Rankine wrote: >Me! Me! I know the answer! To much coffee? >Check your routed flags in /etc/sysconfig. I haven't got my machine in >front of me, but there's a flag which stops it broadcasting it's routing >information. The ppp link comes up in order to broadcast routing tables >to your ISP (not that they probably care :). We don't and an ISP should NEVER listen to a dial-in for routes. No broadcast or listen on dial-up ports here. >>From memory the default routed flag is -s, change this to -q and you >should be right. Read the man page to check my info. Default is -q >Alternatively don't run routed (gateway=NO). When you make the connection it would be a good idea to set a default route or accept the default router duing negotation. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990