From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 02:29:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA25621 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA25616 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA07153; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:29:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:29:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: HCI cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing with ppp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, HCI wrote: > My system has been running well for quite some time with ppp ondemand. > Recently I have been adding more - a scenario which is probably seems > familiar to many. I noticed during debugging that despite the fact that my > system works excellently I can't directly ping my tun0 IP address. When I > do there is no route found. If the link to my ISP is up then I can ping > it, I guess because their router knows where I am. I can ping my ethernet > board on the local network by IP Adress, so my machine does have the > ability to route to its own interfaces. Is the ppp interface different > than the others or is there a configuration screw up somewhere? Note to myself: no more reading mail after 2am.... after ppp quits, the tun0 interface is downed, so essentially it doesn't exist, so you can't ping an interface that's turned off. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major