Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:40:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: User-ppp on 3.4-Stable Message-ID: <385EBE53.E3D44A4@3-cities.com> References: <199912202319.XAA25413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers wrote: > > > I ran into a problem today with user-ppp. I was reading about ppp and > > that is when I got into trouble :). The message log keeps taking about > > -alias being depricated and so I was trying to get aliasing to work with > > NAT. That is when I started getting the following message > > Check your release notes. They mention that -alias is now -nat. > -alias continues to work, but it issues a warning. I did read them but when I substituted -nat for -alias my Windows 2000 systems, which use FreeBSD as the gateway, wouldn't connect. I stopped ppp and restarted it with -alias and they connected. That is what I meant by trying to get -nat to work. I went back and carefully closed the session, killed ppp, restarted it with -nat instead of -alias, and -nat worked. Murphy is playing with my mind :). > > > Dec 19 14:36:45 ruby ppp[454]: Warning: No available tunnel devices > > found (Device busy) > > > > This didn't occur on 3.3S, when I used pppctl to close down user-ppp. At > > least, I don't remember ever seeing that message before. > > Ppp is still running - ps will tell you its process id.... > > > User-ppp seems > > to be very sensitive to rebooting the system while it is still running. > > I have it configured, from the sample.conf, to use /var/run/internet and > > that local domain socket is left around if it shuts down badly. > > What do you mean by ``badly'' ? Ppp only handles certain signals > (see the man page). If you start sending other signals, ppp will > take the default action. I wondered if that was the reason but not having encountered it before, I didn't recognize the symptom. Kent > > > User-ppp > > won't start if it already exists. It is a simple matter to cd to > > /var/run and rm it, which will allow ppp to start. > > Ppp will start, it'll just fail to create a diagnostic socket. > > > It is easy to make > > ppp leave /var/run/internet. All you have to do is use top to kill the > > process. The system was cvsup'ed on 18 Dec (19 Dec UTC) and the make > > world was done on 19 Dec. > > And how are you killing it (see above) ? > > > When I tried starting user-ppp with the -nat option, I didn't get > > aliasing for my other systems. I figure I am missing something but don't > > know what. The -alias still works but I want to switch to the curent > > style. > > -nat and -alias are synonymous - except that -alias warns that it's > deprecated. > > > Thanks. > > > > Kent > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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