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From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>
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To: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: ppp strangeness
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On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Softweyr LLC wrote:

> This is most likely a modem problem; you need to tell your modem to 
> hangup when carrier detect goes away.  Also, be sure to use a cuax
> device to connect on in your configuration file.

OK... thanks.  There shouldn't be a problem using /dev/modem where modem
is a symbolic link to cuaa0, right?  I can't imagine why not...

> When you run ppp -auto, it brings up the tun0 interface immediately so
> you can route packets to it.  If it gets a packet and doesn't have the
> interface up, it will bring it up and fix the addresses and/or routes.
> If the interface wasn't up, you couldn't route packets to it!

I failed to mention that this "up" interface doesn't work.  What you say
makes sense, thanks.  But the problem is that ppp -auto is failing to dial
out despite this.  I get "host name lookup failure" and "host unknown" 
messages when I try to telnet/ping/etc.  Am I missing something?  How do I
make sure packets get routed across the tun0 interface, so that -auto will
dial in for me? 

Thanks again,

					David Lowe