Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:08:02 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> Cc: brian@awfulhawk.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On-demand dynamic PPP not doing default route correctly Message-ID: <199803170338.OAA04889@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Mar 1998 03:21:53 PDT." <199803161021.DAA01019@nomad.mt.sri.com>
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> first thing it does is setup a default route to 10.0.0.2 (totally > bogus). However, the tun0 device is setup correctly with the remote > site. What I did when I was using dynamic IP was setup a route to the tun0 device itself.. (ie route add deafult -iface tun0) > problem, but if I use Win95 PPP it *NEVER* locks up. I have TCP > extensions turned off if that makes any difference. (It also seems to > be related to the use of fetchmail if that gives anyone any ideas.) Try diabling LQR, ie disable lqr deny lqr > The third problem is that if the line 'times out', when it comes back up > I often-times have a different IP address and default route. PPP is not > corretly re-setting the default route when it re-dials. You can make a file called /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup which contains a label, then a list of ppp commands to execute when the link comes up.. there is also ppp.linkdown which does the obvious :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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