From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 03:33:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21136 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 03:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from trolph.humber.ac.uk (trolph.humber.ac.uk [194.80.49.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA21131 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 03:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from pico (pico.humber.ac.uk [194.80.51.2]) by trolph.humber.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA00362 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:27:36 GMT Received: from PICO/SpoolDir by pico (Mercury 1.21); 9 Nov 96 12:31:54 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by PICO (Mercury 1.21); 9 Nov 96 12:31:49 GMT0BST From: "Phil Richardson" Organization: University of Humberside To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 12:31:40 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Advice/Support on pppd Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42) Message-ID: <739FE676152@pico> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am not sure how to post queries and problems to this service, I have never needed to before, although I am a user of FreeBSD for some two years now. I wonder if you can help with the following technical question. I am trying to set up 'pppd' to act as a server for a dial-up PC using Windows 95. I haven't got as far as using PAP or CHAP authentication as yet because the connection process is still unreliable. When first run, all seems to be ok. The address of the server side becomes 194.80.51.42, and the address of the remote pc side becomes 194.80.51.45 as expected. A snap-shot of the connection dialog is below. I guess that the unknown protocol refers to the Windows-95 side of things, although it doesn't seem to cause any problem. pppd 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyd2 input: Unknown protocol (80fd) received! local IP address 194.80.51.42 remote IP address 194.80.51.45 Connection terminated. When the connection is terminated, and a new connection is initiated the following dialog is seen; pppd 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyd2 input: Unknown protocol (80fd) received! local IP address 194.80.51.42 remote IP address 194.80.51.45 ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR): Address already exists Connection terminated. The connection terminated occurs when I disconnect the line or tell the Windows-95 system to drop the line. The connection seems to make but neither the server nor the client can communicate. There is no activity seen on the modem either. The only cure I have found is to reboot the server. The following file is the /etc/ppp/options file; crtscts netmask 255.255.255.0 194.80.51.42:194.80.51.45 domain humber.ac.uk passive silent modem proxyarp I run the pppd daemon as a 'getty' using; ttyd2 "/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyd2 19200 -detach" dialup on secure from the /etc/ttys file. I have noted that the arp entry for 194.80.51.45 remains present after the first invocation, and that a second entry appears on the second invoication. Any advice or help on this matter would be most appreciated. Regards Phil Richardson Network Services Manager Computing and Network Services University of Lincolnshire and Humberside PRichardson@humber.ac.uk