Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:51:32 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." <danm@DanMahoney.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unresponsive TUN/PPP Message-ID: <199811151051.KAA09046@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:23:18 CST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142213360.21673-100000@acetylene.vapornet.net>
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> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > > My second drive, which has a DOS partition, and then a freebsd partition,
> > > boots fine, and everything appears to be working. Expect for some resone
> > > it refuses to alk to the ppp interface. This is only when booting from
> > > this drive, (dev/wd1s2).
> > [.....]
> >
> > Maybe you haven't got a tun device configured into the kernel on this
> > partition ?
>
> It's the generic kernel. PPP acknowledges the existence of a tun device.
> And when I tried putting tun0 (just as a test) in my rc.conf, it spat a
> bunch of applicable parameters at me. (POINTOPOINT, MULTICAST). For the
> record, it didn't help.
So, in what way is it ``refusing'' to talk to the ppp interface ?
> If anyone knows of some way to debug (or at least, find out what info is
> making it how far) this system, let me know.
You can get a lot of info in /var/log/ppp.log with the various ppp
log levels - ``set log phase command lcp ipcp chat' may be a good
start.
> This is driving me nuts.
>
> -Dan Mahoney
Cheers.
> --
>
> "I can feel it, comin' back again...Like a rolling thunder chasin' the
> wind..."
>
> -Dan Mahoney, JS, JB & SL, May 10th, 1997, Approx 1AM
>
> Dan Mahoney
> (webpages TBA)
> (finger for PGP public key)
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