Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:03:22 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP Message-ID: <199906171803.TAA08414@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:08:57 EDT." <3766C0E9.6FED6756@glue.umd.edu>
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> I've gotten User PPP set up on my 3.2-S machine. I have natd running so that I
> can access the "outside world" from my windoze machine (connected by crossover
> ethernet).
> Runnin 'ppp -background' once works fine, but when I disconnect (using kill -1)
> and then reconnect I can't get any packets to go out. I think its a routing
> problem since 'netstat -r' takes about 5 minutes to show the routing tables, but
> the table looks fine once it finally comes up. What am I doing wrong? And what
> is the proper way to disconnect a background ppp process?
You probably need the -dynamic switch to natd so that it picks up the
IP number change (assuming you've got a dynamic IP). This is
assuming you want to continue doing things the painful way.
The easy way is to use the -alias switch to ppp and do away with natd
altogether.
> Thanks,
> Brandon
> --
> bfoz@glue.umd.edu
> "Lead, follow, or get run over"
> "In life there are those who steer, and those who push"
> "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow"
> "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse"
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