Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:47:58 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Nicholson <robert@elastica.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP... how does it work? Message-ID: <199605290047.RAA25266@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 1996 08:01:00 EDT." <199605281201.IAA03445@justine.elastica.com>
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-------- > Hi, is there any body on this list that has a good understanding as to > how PPP works? I do somewhat. Mainly with user PPP. > I ask because of all the times I've setup PPP I've only ever got it > going properly this way... > I've always have to configure my en0 regardless that I don't use > it. I've find that relying on just the PPP interface and lo0 never > works. PPP doesn't use the ethernet interface. It uses the 'tun0' tunnel device for it's magic. When PPP makes the connection it will handle configuring the tun0 interface; all you have to do is add a couple of routes. > Now, I've always had to configure en0 because I need to refer to > justine, justine.elastica.com when the interface is offline > . ie. sendmail, inn etc. Routing should take care of this. > So, if you aren't using your NIC I'd be interested in hearing how > you've configured PPP. Like normal, just adding appropriate routes. If you don't even configure the device then even better. > also, I ask all of this because I'm having a bitch of a time getting > dp-4.0 and Solaris 2.5 working under Solaris x86. I don't do slowaris. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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