Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:11:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." <danm@DanMahoney.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unresponsive TUN/PPP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811170910330.6774-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811162104500.18846-100000@acetylene.vapornet.net>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Dan Mahoney Jr. wrote: > > > I have two drives. The first is fully freebsd. ppp works fine when I > > > booted from this drive. > > > > > > My second drive, which has a DOS partition, and then a freebsd partition, > > > boots fine, and everything appears to be working. Expect for some resone > > > it refuses to alk to the ppp interface. This is only when booting from > > > this drive, (dev/wd1s2). > > > > Can you please explain further? > > > > Error messages, boot messages? > > The error messages were mainly of the "no route to host"/"lookup failure" > variety. I solved this problem when, purely while playing around, decided > to set up a chat script from the default file (pretty much copying > ppp.conf.sample to ppp.conf modifying only the details necessary to login > to my isp), and it seemed to work. Sounds like your ppp.cf's are out of sync. The one on wd1s2 is probably leaving out a add 0 0 HISADDR line in /etc/pp/ppp.linkup. > I checked the ppp.conf file, and discovered that the "default" (loaded > when I try to use ppp directly (just executing it by typing ppp, then > term, etc...) didn't have the "set ifaddr" lines. I haven't tried adding > them, because my chat scripts now work and I really have no desire to run > ppp from the command line/terminal interface again. But all is well in > DanMahoney land. That's what we like to hear :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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