From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 2 18:31:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA18075 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:31:29 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA18069 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:31:29 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA03029; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:31:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199504030131.SAA03029@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Richard Chang cc: FreeBSD-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: slip and ppp not working In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 1995 16:52:50 PDT." Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 18:31:11 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I don't know what happened... Yesterday sup wasn't working so >Justin G. helped me on that one and the machine locked up so I rebooted >and now ppp doesn't work at all, somehow it's not getting packets out of >the machine.... slip works but when I start it, it says: > >Apr 2 16:45:31 bigbang slattach[196]: cannot get carrier state: >Inappropriate ioctl for device >Apr 2 16:45:31 bigbang slattach[196]: Waiting for carrier on /dev/cua00 >(sl-1) > > For ppp, it just doesn't know how to handle hostnames but with ip >numbers, it would just say the network is down... Anyone have any ideas? >Thanks.. > >--richardc The sysctl calls I gave you are not permanent. You must run them out of rc.local so the configuration is maintained across reboots. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================