From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 00:07:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12373 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.sirius.com (mail1.sirius.com [205.134.253.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12365 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from venus.sirius.com (venus.sirius.com [205.134.226.3]) by mail1.sirius.com (8.6.12/960710) with ESMTP id AAA26864 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:05:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (dlowe@localhost) by venus.sirius.com (8.6.12/970228) with SMTP id AAA28381 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:07:51 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: venus.sirius.com: dlowe owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:07:50 -0800 (PST) From: David Lowe X-Sender: dlowe@venus Reply-To: David Lowe To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp strangeness Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey people - I'm having annoying problems setting up ppp (using user ppp.) I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-970310-GAMMA on a 486-80 with 12MB ram. The modem in question is a USRobotics 28.8 Sportster. I used to run user ppp without problems. Things that have changed since then: upgraded from 14.4 Sportster. upgraded from 2.1.5-RELEASE. and changed to an ISP with dynamic IP allocation :( The problems are as follows: 1 - The connection dies after some seemingly random interval. However, the line doesn't get hung up, the routes stay in place, and the interface stays marked as up. The ppp process starts going crazy and slurps up memory; doesn't respond to keys. At this point I kill -9 it from another shell, down the interface, delete the dead route, and re-do (all manually, so far). Not much fun. 2 - A problem that seems more strange. 'ppp -auto foo' seems to behave strangely. It claims to be working fine, but it ups the interface with a bogus route immediately (i.e.: # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8050 mtu 1006 # ppp -auto foo # ifconfig tun0 tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1006 inet 10.255.255.254 --> 10.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffff00 Any help (especially with problem #1!) would be most appreciated.... Thanks, David Lowe -- /etc/ppp/ppp.conf --- default: set device /dev/modem set speed 38400 disable lqr deny lqr set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATZ OK-AT-OK \\dATDT\\TTIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" foo: set phone *70,,xxxxxxx set login "TIMEOUT 10 gin:-BREAK-gin: xxx word: xxx" set timeout 0 set ifaddr 10.255.255.254/0 10.255.255.255/0 255.255.255.0 delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR set openmode active -- /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup --- MYADDR: set timeout 0 add 0 0 HISADDR