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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:14:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dmitry Solodov <dima@irs.riga.lv>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP: configuration problem with kernel ppp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029221346.369S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3275f208.irs@irs.riga.lv>

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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Dmitry Solodov wrote:

> the following configuration problems was met on local intranet, when it
> was tried to configure server side PPP access.
> 
> We have a LAN with two segments with net address 194.8.30.0 and 194.8.32.0,
> and want to setup ppp access to it through FreeBSD 2.1.0 machine.
> 
> Kernel ppp was configured ( added pseude-device ppp 4, remove tun
> pseude-device and added GATEWAY to kernel configuration file). Then 
> created /etc/ppp/options and added a new user, who has pppd as login 
> shell.

The GATEWAY option is no longer in use.  set gateway=YES in
/etc/sysconfig.

> 
> /etc/ppp/options has the contents:
>  194.8.30.241:194.8.30.240
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
>  modem
>  crtscts
>  passive

Add:

proxyarp

to this profile.

> Another problem is that ppp to FreeBSD works fine only for the first 
> connection after FreeBSD system reboot. Any next connection establishes 
> fine, but neither ping nor do anything else works over the link any next 
> time connection is up. Why ?

The routing is not being reset properly.  Make sure that the old routes
to ppp0 are deleted when you're done.

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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