Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 08:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/1973: pppd uses /etc/ppp/options.tty after command line args Message-ID: <199611071617.IAA07517@nike.efn.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199611072300.PAA25833@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1973
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: pppd uses /etc/ppp/options.tty after command line args
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 7 15:00:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John-Mark Gurney
>Organization:
Cu Networking
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Environment:
a ppp server that is doing "dynamic" ip via /etc/ppp/options.tty files and
wants to allow some others to connect a network overriding the ip address
in options.tty file on the command line...
machine is a cut down termserver
>Description:
when you try to override options that are specified in options.<tty> from the
command line you find you can't...
>How-To-Repeat:
create a /etc/ppp/options.<tty> file with something like
:1.2.3.4
and then run:
pppd :1.2.3.5
you will find that when you connect you will end up with 1.2.3.4 as your ip
address instead of 1.2.3.5... which you would expect...
>Fix:
apply this patch... (basicly swap reading sequence of options:
Index: main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/usr.sbin/pppd/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -c -r1.5 main.c
*** main.c 1995/10/31 21:21:26 1.5
--- main.c 1996/11/07 10:19:59
***************
*** 191,198 ****
if (!options_from_file(_PATH_SYSOPTIONS, REQ_SYSOPTIONS, 0) ||
!options_from_user() ||
! !parse_args(argc-1, argv+1) ||
! !options_for_tty())
die(1);
check_auth_options();
setipdefault();
--- 191,198 ----
if (!options_from_file(_PATH_SYSOPTIONS, REQ_SYSOPTIONS, 0) ||
!options_from_user() ||
! !options_for_tty() ||
! !parse_args(argc-1, argv+1))
die(1);
check_auth_options();
setipdefault();
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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