From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 13:22:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958C51559C for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21113; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 06:41:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpde21111; Tue Sep 7 06:41:53 1999 Message-ID: <02dd01bef95e$c7f64480$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Ben Smithurst" Cc: References: <19990906141457.A15090@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: PPP exiting unexpectedly Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:28:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a devil (excuse the pun) of a problem keeping ppp alive when I first got it working til I used "ppp -ddial " to dial . This apparently negates any timeout setting and forces ppp to keep the connection up .... if it disconnects its supposed to bring it up again, however I can't speak about that from personal experience (yet) as mine has not yet lost the connection > any idea what could cause this, and any way of preventing it in future? > > Sep 6 04:48:01 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Warning: ip_Input: IPCP not open - packet dropped > Sep 6 04:48:01 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Warning: nat_LayerPull: Problem with IP header length > Sep 6 04:48:02 scientia /kernel: pid 16181 (ppp), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > > The core file wasn't very helpful, since my ppp wasn't built with > debugging symbols. > > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message