Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:14:07 +0100 From: Olivier Cortes <receiver@deep-ocean.net> To: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QUESTION REGARDING PPP Message-ID: <20010311181407.A5321@sylgen.deep-ocean.net> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0a961$d91619c0$75b31ec4@ffkrz>; from ffkrz@iafrica.com on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:58:07PM %2B0200 References: <000b01c0a961$d91619c0$75b31ec4@ffkrz>
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:58:07PM +0200, Francois Kritzinger wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem with my PPP configuration. > I have spent MANY hours reading help documents (including the freeBSD Handbook) trying to sort this problem out, and I've given up, so please forgive me if you think this is a trivial matter. > > My Setup: > a.. freeBSD 4.2 STABLE, > b.. US Robotics 56K external modem on com2 (or cuaa1 or whatever), > c.. an ISP account, > d.. 2 x ISP DNS server IP addresses, > e.. a dynamically allocated IP address > f.. not much patience :) > The Situation: > > I can get my Internet connection working in a hacky kind of way, IOW I can browse the internet and even send email in pine using the included configuration files. BUT there are certain problems. > > PROBLEMS: > > If I type # ppp and then # dial MYISP, ppp connects to my ISP. BUT if I then type # netscape &, netscape does not actually start up (in KDE) or it does not create a window. According to #jobs it is running though. I can also not start pine in this situation. > > To work around this I would then start up KDE, type # netscape & in a terminal, and then # ppp and #dial xxx and this would work fine, except for one thing: in the terminal I would get messages like this: > > "sio0: 2 more silo overflows" or something like that. > > In my desperation I have tweaked these files a lot, so what I have sent you may not be the most successful configuration I have had, and I also ran a shell script I got off the Internet (also included). > After running this script sendmail produces an error message at boot time like: "hostx not known, sleeping for retry" or something similar (I am in Windows now so please forgive me again). Sendmail also dials in (runs ppp) at boot time, even though I do not have an /etc/start_if.tun0 file. > > So my QUESTIONS are: > > a.. How do I get rid of the "silo overflow" messages? i don't know for that, my USR is working perfectly good. > b.. What is the correct way to use ppp from the command line? i type "ppp -nat -background myprovider", myprovider: beiing a label in ppp.conf if the connexion goes ok, ppp fork into the background. when i want to stop the connexion, i do "killall ppp" or wait for the timeout. > c.. How can I get sendmail to NOT check for email at boot time? try to see if you have the flags "-q30m" somewhere, and scratch them. you must run sendmail with '-bd' only, and when you run ppp spawn something who runs the mailqueue. see man ppp, it says something like: in ppp.conf: !sendmail -q10m see ya --- Olivier Cortes free software admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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