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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:27:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Larry Berland <stuyman@euphoria.confusion.net>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        "D.Schneider" <mrtyler@earthlink.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: PPP dialup problems 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.991014091832.26727A-100000@euphoria.confusion.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910130644.HAA00560@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Brian Somers wrote:

> > Your rc.conf should contain an entry for tun0
> > so with your rc that'd be 
> > network_interfaces="xl0 lo0 tun0"
> > then ifconfig_tun0="ppp -auto provider"
> 
> This will not work :-/
> 
> > or better yet instead of the second line could be replaced by making the
> > file start_if.tun0 which contains just
> > 
> > ppp -auto provider
> 
> But this will :-)
> 
> There are hooks to enable ppp in rc.conf in 3.3 and above.

Oooops, haven't setup ppp on a 3.3 system, and the first part worked fine
on that, perhaps things have changed...someone should probably update the
handbook. Will the ifconfig_tun0 line work or is all of that wrong?

> 
> [.....]
> -- 
> 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>
> 
> 
> 




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