Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 16:23:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199806071523.QAA11369@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:16:44 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601141547.15962h-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> > also when I try to open netscape on my win95 machine > > my freebsd box automatically connects but anyway > > netscape still says that it could not find the dns > > entry of the site which it is supposed to connect. > > > > what may I be doing wrong??? > > After it dials up reload, ppp tends to eat the packet the causes the > dialout. Well, not quite. There's a description of why this happens in the userppp part of the FAQ - it's because the interface is re-numbered *after* the program that triggered the dial has bind()ed the socket. That program will forever send packets with the old source IP :-( > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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