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From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ppp 
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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Maybe what has to happen first is you need to figure out a way of
> > causing ppp to kill your system *without* running X, e.g. so that
> > we can get into ddb and see what's panicing!
> > 
> 
> 	it aint ppp.  it may well be the configuration that the user has 
> spec'ed to ppp, but it aint ppp.
> 
> 	excuse me for being so bloody insistent.  it took a while to get 
> ppp set up correctly.  being the kook that i am, i keep hammering on it 
> till i got the setup right (for me at least).  now everyone at my 
> previous employer uses my config files for ppp, works like a charm.
> 
> 	BUT you gotta beware of "delete ALL" and setup up your routes 
> first, during boot, as in:
> 
> ifconfig tun0 inet 198.138.38.205 198.138.38.21 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default 198.138.38.205
> 
> 	then in /etc/rc.local get ppp going and active
> /usr/sbin/ppp -auto atinc
> /sbin/ping -c 10 198.138.38.21
> 
> 	ONLY THEN do you start X.  i use xdm ;)
> 
> Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
> play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life 
> i am moving to a new job.                 PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
> 

Hmm, I don't touch tun0 during boot as I found this caused me problems.

Here's what my ppp.linkup looks like:

################ BEGIN /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup ################

MYADDR:
 delete ALL
 add 0 0 HISADDR

################ END /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup ##################

and relevant excerpts from my ppp.conf:

################ BEGIN /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ##################

default:
 set device /dev/cuaa1
 set speed 57600
# set mru 1460
 disable lqr
 deny lqr
# disable pred1
# deny pred1
# disable vjcomp
# deny vjcomp
 set debug phase
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATZE1Q0 OK-AT-OK 
\\dATM0DT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"                 

ondemand:
 set phone >PHONE_NUMBER<
 set login "TIMEOUT 5 login:-\\r-login: >LOGIN< word: >PASSWORD<"
 set timeout 600
 set ifaddr 204.57.120.34/24 204.57.120.3/24
 add 0 255.255.255.0 204.57.120.3     

################# END /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ################


This has been working for MONTHS 10-15 minutes an hour 24/7.
X is always running and I often kill ppp and restart it from
within X.  It worked for 23 days once, unattended, while I was
out of state.  BTW, under both 205 & 210 with hylafax running and
Seyon running a script once an evening.

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