From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 04:33:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA02703 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 04:33:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101152.iafrica.com [196.7.101.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02696 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 04:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00341 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:45:48 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601041145.NAA00341@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: PPP glitches resolved To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:45:45 +0200 (SAT) 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-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Robert Nordier wrote as follows: > I set up user PPP a few days ago and have been having > a few problems. > > Basically, everything works fine during the first > dial-in. But reconnecting later sometimes results in > one of two error messages: > > 1) SIOCAIFADDR: File exists > 2) rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf0509d00) was (0xf0506980) The good news is now that iij-ppp is working, with no SIOCAIFADDR or rtinit errors, and actually handles all the route adding and cleanup by itself correctly and automatically, without help from the route(8) utility. To everyone who gave advice, thanks very much, and thanks particularly to Richard Lyon and Doug White for help in finally getting the correct configuration sorted out. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@iafrica.com E.A.C.