From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 14:32:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18823 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101151.iafrica.com [196.7.101.151]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18818 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:32:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA00287 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 00:25:54 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199512292225.AAA00287@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: PPP glitches To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 00:25:53 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I set up user PPP a few days ago and have been having a few problems. Basically, everything works fine during the first dial-in. But reconnecting later sometimes results in one of two error messages: 1) SIOCAIFADDR: File exists 2) rtinit: wrong ifa (0xf0509d00) was (0xf0506980) (the hex numbers vary) I think the first error can be prevented by using 'route' to delete stuff left over from the previous session, but the second error isn't as predictable. One difficulty is that neither my IP address nor the address of the ISP gateway is fixed. The gateway IPs are 196.7.101.66 (usually) and 192.96.88.112 (sometimes). My own assigned IPs are all over the place.... The main stuff changed to get PPP running was: [/etc/hosts] 127.0.0.0 localhost 10.0.0.0 eac.iafrica.com eac [/etc/sysconfig] ifconfig_tun0="inet eac.iafrica.com 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00" [/etc/ppp/ppp.conf] set ifaddr 0/0 0/0 Maybe I shouldn't complain: this all works fine if I keep rebooting before reconnecting to my ISP. But my my guess is this _isn't_ as good as it gets.... If anyone has any light to throw on all of this, I'd appreciate it. TIA