From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 13:32: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7CC37B5D4 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 13:32:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (cust113.tnt1.dial.cal1.uunet.ca [209.167.219.113]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA55834; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:32:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000201bfc363$f1b7dac0$71dba7d1@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Brian Somers" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Tun0 -- Too many idle timeout values Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:37:58 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:37 AM Brian Somers 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 mtu 1500 tun0: flags=8051 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 mtu 552 ppp0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 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 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 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