From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:34:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29351 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29182 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07793; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jeff Kletsky cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto -alias and 1st connection w/ dynamic IP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > With an ISP that provides dynamically-assigned IP numbers, I am observing that > > ppp -auto -alias sf > > will dial properly when a command such as > > telnet some.outside.host > > is issued, but the connection is not established. Once the link is up, > everything seems to function "correctly." (telnet "immediately" connects) This is generally because telnet times out before ppp connects. It's a fact of -auto life. :) > My guess is that the packets which caused the dial to occur are > (incorrectly) aliased to the "last" IP number assigned to the interface. > When the link comes up, the interface's new address is different -- the > return packets are not recognized as destined for the PPP-client machine > (not to mention that the ISP's routers are sending the packet to another > machine!). Another fact of -auto life. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message