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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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Subject: Re: PPP glitches
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:57:26 -0800 (PST)
Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103131122.246D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jan 3, 96 01:18:43 pm
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According to Doug White:
> 
> > 
> > However, there must be something amiss somewhere. If I now do
> > 
> > dial my_psp
> > 
> > again, it works only about 70 percent of the time. Otherwise I get a message
> > 
> > rtinit: wrong ifa (...) was (...)
> 
> Oh no, not this one.  Someone else was getting this and I don't remember 
> what was the cause.  
> 
> > I feel sure I must have something set up wrong ... or maybe various things
> > set up wrong. :-)
> 
> After you get ppp up, the next fight is the routing tables.  It always 
> is. :)
> 

		This ``wrong ifa...'' is something I was 
		able to trace my staring at the code and
		realizing that something was hosed in my
		/etc/hosts file.

		It takes careful experimentation, making
		only one change at a time.  But after a few
		hours, you'll figure it out.

		gary kline