From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 11:25:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA17355 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gemini.digitech.net (digitech.rain.com [204.119.8.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17346 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from codom.digitech.net (codom.digitech.net [204.119.47.100]) by gemini.digitech.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA10369; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:27:35 -0700 Received: by codom.digitech.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BB5788.FBDAA640@codom.digitech.net>; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:27:33 -0700 Message-ID: <01BB5788.FBDAA640@codom.digitech.net> From: Chris Odom To: "'dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu'" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: ppp -auto, dynamic ip addressing Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:27:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a bit o' trouble with ppp, thought maybe I could describe my situation to you and you might be able to help? Here goes: Ok, I'm running UserPPP on FreeBSD 2.1. At the bottom of ppp.conf, I have this: set ifaddr 0 x.x.x.x Where "x.x.x.x" is the address of the default gateway on the ISP side. So whenever I dial in, it negotiates a PPP connection successfully, but then HANGS UP. So, I thought, maybe it assigns the gateway address dynamically, and I should set it to 0. So I changed it to this: set ifaddr 0 0 And it worked! No more hanging up on me after I connect. Except now I can't use ppp -auto. When I do "ppp -auto XXXX" (where XXXX is the name of the label in my ppp.conf script), it runs long enough to tell me that the "-auto" option does not work when i have a dynamically assigned gateway address. Why is this? Is there any way around this? Thanx in advance, Chris Odom