Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:12:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: gwq_uk@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP problem still! was PPP complains of invalid net mask??? Message-ID: <200005302212.XAA02705@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from =?iso-8859-1?q?Greg=20Quinlan?= <gwq_uk@yahoo.com> of "Tue, 30 May 2000 06:38:14 PDT." <20000530133814.1248.qmail@web1405.mail.yahoo.com>
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I know little about pppd, but it looks as if pppd is adding a route
based on the supplied netmask.
You don't mention the relevant IP numbers, but it sounds as if
they're conflicting (one IP resides on another already-routable
network).
> Hi All,
>
> I sent this message a week ago but got no reply. Does
> anyone out there have more than one PPP dialup link
> working??
>
> Or a straight forward way I can debug a pure CHAP
> link?
>
> <<<< Original message below >>>>
>
> Recently while trying to set up a second PPP link
> (ppp1) I encounted an error; PPP complained that the
> netmask of 255.255.255.0 was invalid.
>
> I believe it may have something to do with the fact
> that I already have one PPP link (ppp0) which has a
> network mask of 255.255.255.128.
>
> I am using kernel ppp with - 'pppd file options.vpn'
> as the command.
>
> Setting the netmask to 255.255.255.128 on the second
> link (ppp1) allows the dialer script to dial and make
> the connection, but this mask is not valid for the
> client/gateway combination. Also, despite the fact
> that I do NOT specify the 'defaultroute' option in
> the second ppp link options file (options.vpn) pppd
> attempts to add it giving an error: 'default route
> exists'
>
> Anyone got a clue what's wrong. I am running 3.4S from
> about midway through Feb/00.
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg
>
> ps. I'm not in the mailing list :( (could not cope
> with the volume)ie. please include me in replies!!
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