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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: ppp in -auto mode
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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

> Due to a disk crash I had to reinstall FreeBSD. Earlier I used the
> version of ppp that I could fetch at awfulhak somewhere in May. This one
> worked beatifully with MS RAS server. I then used ppp -auto sr to make
> the ppp server work in the background.
> 
> With the version shipped with 2.2.7 I am not able to use ppp -auto, I
> have to dial using ppp and the in ppp dial xxx and so on. I use exactly
> the same ppp.conf that I used on the old system. What happens in -auto
> mode is that I get a connection and then the rx and tx lights flash for
> ever without me being able to do anything on the 'network'
> 
> What's the big difference? (And as an extra comment, I also fetched the
> latest version of ppp from awfulhak with the same result.

Is the default route added correctly?  I've never had ppp.linkup work. In
3.0 we have sticky routes which solve that problem.

> This is my ppp.conf:
> 
> default:
>  allow user gunnar
>  set device /dev/cuaa0
>  set speed 115200
> sr:
>  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 15 \"\" AT&J3E1Q0
>  OK-AT-OK \\dA
>  TDI\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
>  set phone 1234567890
>  set login
>  set authname mylogin
>  set authkey mypassword
>  set openmode active
>  set ns x.x.x.x x.x.x.x #with accurate values of course
>  # set dns
>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.254.0 0.0.0.0
>  enable msext
> 
> and then in ppp.linkup I've got
> sr:
>  delete ALL
>  add 0 0 HISADDR

Doug White                               
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