Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:33:19 -0600 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: pppd leaving incomplete proxy arp Message-ID: <19980814123319.55896@i-pi.com>
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On a 2.2.5-RELEASE system, we are running pppd from /etc/ttys like: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach +chap 38.245.99.3:38.245.99.254 ttyd0 115200 Everything works fine most of the time. However, regularly (sometimes several times a day, sometimes only a few times a week) it leaves an arp entry: ppp-in-2.swd.ara.com (38.245.99.253) at (incomplete) which prevents the next person who connects from being able to do anything. Scanning the archives, there seems to be discussion of this, but it was to have been fixed a while back. I talked with one of the people who had used the line after pppd left it in a strange state a couple of times. Nothing he could think of was common between when the problem occurred and when it didn't. Some users seem to be more implicated in this, but I could find no hard patterns. I am unable to reproduce the probelm when I dial in from another FreeBSD machine (unplugging the phone line, turning the computer off (after a sync :-), normal shutdown, etc). Currently, I've got a cron job running every 10 minutes to clean it up. I'd rather it work right in the first place though. Kenneth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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