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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 20:58:12 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Mike Bush <mab@kougars.kish.cc.il.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp -auto hmmms 
Message-ID:  <199908131958.UAA01486@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:58:06 PDT." <37B2464E.FA9958A2@3-cities.com> 

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> Mike Bush wrote:
> > 
> > Im running FreeBSD 4.0-current. I've setup ppp and it seens to be working
> > great with alias but i noticed something last week and cant figure out how
> > to fix it.
> > 
> > Everytime ppp dials out i get a new dynamic ip which is added to tun0 as
> > the default route.. great.. the only 'problem' is that ppp isnt deleting
> > these ip addresses when the connection goes down. I havent reached a limit
> > yet but i assume there is one at some point (i get about 5 new entrys a
> > day)
> > 
> > ifconfig tun0:
> > tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 127.1.1.1 --> 127.2.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00
> >         inet 207.40.234.155 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff
> >         inet 207.40.234.78 --> 207.40.235.236 netmask 0xffffff00
> > 
> > this only shows 2 (rebooted 6 hours ago) so there is only one that
> > shouldnt be there. This morning there was more like 12.
> > 
> > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
> > 
> > default:
> >  set speed 115200
> >  set device /dev/cuaa0
> >  set ctsrts on
> >  set server 7000 blah
> >  alias enable yes
> >  set timeout 3600
> >  ...
> > 
> > rochelle:
> >  set phone "5621212"
> >  set login "ogin: user assword: userblah1989"
> >  set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.2.2.2/0 255.255.255.0
> >  add default HISADDR
> > 
> > Is this normal for ppp? Thanks for your help in advance :)
> 
> My setup did what yours did until I cleaned up ppp.linkup and
> ppp.linkdown. It still happens but not as often. I "ppp -auto
> pmdemand" instead of "rochelle".
> 
> I have in my ppp.linkup
> 
> pmdemand:
>         delete ALL
>         add 0 0 HISADDR
> 
> In my ppp.linkdown, I have
> 
> pmdemand:
>  iface clear
> 
> This seemed to clean it up.

The ``iface clear'' is what does it.  If you don't like them at all, 
use ``disable iface-alias''.

> Kent
> 
> > 
> > FreeBSD fan
> > Mike Bush
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
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