Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:37:58 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tun0 -- Too many idle timeout values Message-ID: <000201bfc363$f1b7dac0$71dba7d1@odie>
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On Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:37 AM Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote: >set timeout has one or two arguments now. What exactly are you >trying to do ? > I gathered as much from the README.changes file. My requirements for ppp are minimal - I have a standalone system running 3.3R. I want to: 1. "off-line" use of sendmail/fetchmail/pine 2. use lynx occasionally My ppp.conf looks something like: default: blah blah isp1: set timeout 300 blah isp2 set timeout 300 If I comment out the ` set timeout ` lines - the warnings go away! I've re-made tun0 as per the various instructions to insure that it was setup/working properly. I've editted all the other "support" files as per the instructions, as well as creating start_if.tun0. That's it!! Here's some relevant info: odie[v0]:root@/root# ifconfig -a lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.1 --> 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --> yyy.yyy.yyy.yy netmask 0xffffff00 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 odie[v0]:root@/root# netstat -I tun0 Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll tun0 1500 <Link> 8 0 12 0 0 tun0 1500 10/24 odie 8 0 12 0 0 tun0 1500 none none 8 0 12 0 0 -duke >> On Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:47 AM Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> wrote: >> >> Would *you* know why I get the following at boot up and when I >> >> run ppp from the prompt: >> >> >> >> warning: Too many idle timeout values >> >> warning: set timeout: Failed 1 >> > >> >Because your ppp.conf file is abusing the ``set timeout'' command. >> >Compare your usage with the ppp man page, and check README.changes in >> >the ppp source directory. >> >> >> I found the README.changes files -- even printed it out ;) I can't see >> *where* I'm blowing this. In order to get rid of the above warnings, >> I've had to comment out the `set timeout` line(s). My ppp.conf is almost >> a copy of what's in the various docs/examples etc. Any other ideas? Tia... >> >> -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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