From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 15 04:15:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA21554 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:15:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA21545 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:15:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11684; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:13:54 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA09046; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:51:33 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811151051.KAA09046@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unresponsive TUN/PPP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:23:18 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:51:32 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > My second drive, which has a DOS partition, and then a freebsd partition, > > > boots fine, and everything appears to be working. Expect for some resone > > > it refuses to alk to the ppp interface. This is only when booting from > > > this drive, (dev/wd1s2). > > [.....] > > > > Maybe you haven't got a tun device configured into the kernel on this > > partition ? > > It's the generic kernel. PPP acknowledges the existence of a tun device. > And when I tried putting tun0 (just as a test) in my rc.conf, it spat a > bunch of applicable parameters at me. (POINTOPOINT, MULTICAST). For the > record, it didn't help. So, in what way is it ``refusing'' to talk to the ppp interface ? > If anyone knows of some way to debug (or at least, find out what info is > making it how far) this system, let me know. You can get a lot of info in /var/log/ppp.log with the various ppp log levels - ``set log phase command lcp ipcp chat' may be a good start. > This is driving me nuts. > > -Dan Mahoney Cheers. > -- > > "I can feel it, comin' back again...Like a rolling thunder chasin' the > wind..." > > -Dan Mahoney, JS, JB & SL, May 10th, 1997, Approx 1AM > > Dan Mahoney > (webpages TBA) > (finger for PGP public key) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message