From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 27 15:25:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD0F37BD38 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:24:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA57186; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:22:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01028; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:22:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200003272322.AAA01028@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Chance Daryl SrA AMC CSS/SAS Cc: "'freebsd-net'" , brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: FW: bad link ppp In-Reply-To: Message from Chance Daryl SrA AMC CSS/SAS of "Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:26:29 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:22:50 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello, > > Not really sure that this is the correct list for this type of > question, but I'll give it a shot :). > > I recently downloaded the freebsd 4.0 iso image and burned it onto > a cd. Previously I had 3.4 and it ran fine, no problems with the > exception of a small ppp problem, which is why I decided to give > 4.0 a try. That and I had to change out a HD that was going bad :). > > well, it installed fine (minor partitioning problem on my part) and > I set it up to be my gateway, setup the ip for it, could ping it and > all that from my win boxes. Seeing all this was good, I brought up > ppp something like this: > > ppp -nat > ppp on>set device /dev/cuaa1 (modem is on com2) > ppp on>dial > can not open device /dev/cuaa1 bad link (or something to that > effect). > > so, i quit out of ppp, go into /dev and do a ./MAKEDEV tun* cuaa* > > go back into ppp and it does the same thing. I do a ./MAKEDEV all > and go back to ppp, same thing. > > any thoughts? any help would be appreciated. Ensure that sio1 was probed correctly (run ``dmesg''). If it is, please post the full message. > the minor problem i was hoping to resolve with ppp is this: > > i play Rouge Spear online with a friend of mine. I setup the ports > so that if it came through on X port number, send it to my machine. > i run ppp -nat -auto > > when i run it through auto, it doesn't alias the ports correctly. Doesn't it ? What are your ``nat port'' commands ? > it also leaves old ips around, the mask on one is 0XFFFFFF the other > is 0XFFFF00 (or something to that effect). Before, it was leaving all > stale ips around, so I checked up on some stuff and found that creating > a ppp.linkdown would fix it...it fixed part of it :)....cleans out all but > 2. These alias addresses shouldn't be a problem. ppp.linkdown.sample keeps things tidier, but that's all. > the odd thing is that all this works if i don't use auto IE: > > ppp -nat > ppp on>dial > > all is fine. That's because ``iface-alias'' is disabled. See the documentation. I would think this stuff is a red herring. > Thanks again, > <---------------------------------------------------------------> > <- SrA Daryl Chance - A programmer is someone who solves a -> > <- USAF AMC CSS/SASR - problem you didn't know you had in a -> > <- RAD Programmer - way you don't understand. -> > <- (618) 256-5225 - - ????? -> > <---------------------------------------------------------------> -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message