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Subject: Re: Serious problems with iijppp demand dial 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 1997 21:54:35 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 00:13:07 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 	I gather that I'm not the only one to have trouble with
> iijppp, but this one's a pip.
> 
> 	Basically, the problem is that I can do an "automatic dial",
> like the "simplesite" example, but demand dialing as with "pmdemand"
> does not work.  The symptom is that the negotiations seem to complete
> successfully, all the way to the "OsLinkup" stage according to
> the log file, but the ppp daemon then hangs forever, apparently
> in a 'select'.  No packets seem to be passed.  The modem connection
> stays up with no traffic.  However connecting to the same ISP using
> "automatic dialing" (i.e. semi-manual mode, where I type in the
> "add 0 0 HISADDR" afterward by hand) does work just fine, and the
> log looks basically the same.
> 
> 	Here is the banner from the system:
> 
> FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE (CAERN) #0: Mon Jun 30 19:40:37 PDT 1997
> 
> 
> 	Here are two configurations I've tried:
> 
> pmdemand:
>  set debug 0 1 2 3
>  set phone nnnnnnn
>  set login "TIMEOUT 5 ogin:-\\r-ogin: UWish word: GoodLuck"
>  set timeout 1200
>  disable lqr
>  deny lqr
>  set ifaddr 207.199.11.70 192.215.247.250
>  add 0 255.255.255.0 192.215.247.250
[.....]

You're saying that you want a route of "0.0.0.0/24", ie, anything
beginning with 0.0.0......

Try "add 0 0 192.215.247.250".

> Help.  Anyone?
> 
> Mike O'Brien

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