From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 28 06:02:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA25162 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 06:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from katy.apana.org.au (katy.apana.org.au [202.12.89.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA25155 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 06:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from davo@localhost) by katy.apana.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA01774 for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 May 1996 22:18:47 +0930 From: Dave Edwards Message-Id: <199605281248.WAA01774@katy.apana.org.au> Subject: User PPP failing. To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:18:46 +0930 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, We seem to be having a problem with user ppp on our dialin lines. I look after an intel FreeBSD machine running 2.1.0-Release. We have 2 cyclades 16ye boards with about 18 modems of various types attached so far. I compiled a kernel with 20 tun devices and 20 slip devices for our use but we are having lots of trouble with dialin PPP. The slip interfaces work fine. The error occures just after the user logs in. They get: > Starting PPP for cuac0 > can't find ifindex. > oen_tun: Device not configured and the line drops of course.. ifconfig -a only show 12 tun devices configured which is a bit suspect. Is there a hard limmit on the number of slip/ppp/tun devices we can use? The devices are there, I made 20 in /dev. We can sometimes get up to three people in with PPP before it fails. But can't predict when it will fail. At the moment we have only one on and all other attempts are failing :( So far I have tried upping maxusers to 15 and 4 other kernels with different numbers of devices with no better luck. I'm about to install a kernel now with 20 ppp devices in case we have to move over to kernel ppp (which will be a last resort..) Any ideas folks?? ciao dave -- Dave Edwards davo@katy.apana.org.au || davo@frisbee.net.au Adelaide, South Australia ----