Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:29:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: HCI <bohandas@best.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing with ppp Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108022849.246a-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970107084835.7888B-100000@shellx.best.com>
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, HCI wrote: > My system has been running well for quite some time with ppp ondemand. > Recently I have been adding more - a scenario which is probably seems > familiar to many. I noticed during debugging that despite the fact that my > system works excellently I can't directly ping my tun0 IP address. When I > do there is no route found. If the link to my ISP is up then I can ping > it, I guess because their router knows where I am. I can ping my ethernet > board on the local network by IP Adress, so my machine does have the > ability to route to its own interfaces. Is the ppp interface different > than the others or is there a configuration screw up somewhere? Note to myself: no more reading mail after 2am.... after ppp quits, the tun0 interface is downed, so essentially it doesn't exist, so you can't ping an interface that's turned off. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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