From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 05:03:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03615 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomad.mt.sri.com (ppp10-max01.twics.com [202.237.149.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03606 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01357; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 06:02:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 06:02:51 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199803161302.GAA01357@nomad.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Wynne Cc: "Nate Williams" , brian@awfulhak.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On-demand dynamic PPP not doing default route correctly In-Reply-To: <199803161048.CAA27644@northwest.com> References: <199803161021.DAA01019@nomad.mt.sri.com> <199803161048.CAA27644@northwest.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Nate Williams" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Stephen Wynne writes: > In message <199803161021.DAA01019@nomad.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: > > So, as root, I blow away the default route, and add a new one with the > correct 'remote' site. Then, after a few minutes, the link 'dies'. No > packets come in or go out. > > Nate, > > With a one year-old config, I had the same problem after cvsup'ing. I > solved the problem by trial and error, and reading the sample files > out of the new /usr/src/etc/ppp directory populated by cvsup. > > I found that you need to do what you're doing by hand in > /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup with a twist. The new version of ppp > *really* likes to have ppp.linkup now! Apparently so. > My normal configuration now looks like this (in the critical areas) .... [ Contents removed ] > Good luck! Hmm, that seemed to do the 'routing' trick for sure. *MUCH* better than having to futz with the routing. However, I don't know what's happening with the link getting all balled up, since I'm not sure whose fault it is. Thanks alot for the routing information. It's certainly made life easier for me! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message