Re: ppp questions

[Alexander.Farber@t-online.de (Alexander Farber)]

Hi,

I'm not a ppp expert, but it works for me (with pppoe).
I still don't understand why don't you attach your
ppp.conf and ppp.log and esp. why do you omit
"add default HISADDR" or "add! default HISADRR"
which is supposed to set or modify the default route?

Regards
Alex

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:32:59AM -0500, Bob McIlvaine wrote:
> I'm still floggin this ppp issue on my obsd 3.4 box.
> 
> I have set up the ppp.conf and ppp gets to the point of 
> agreeing on an ip address from the isp and showing the 
> "PPP" status.
> 
> So at that point I have the address assigned to this box on 
> my net, say 192.168.53.100. The isp has defined the ip of 
> tun0 as 111.222.33.44 and the isp machine is 
> 111.222.33.55.
> 
> This is without the "add default HISADDR" shown in all the 
> docs.
> 
> At this point a route shows:
> 
> Dest.                      Gateway
> 
> 192.168.53.0          link#1
> 192.168.53.100      127.0.0.1
> 111.222.33.44        111.222.33.55
> 
> How does traffic from 192 get to 111? Ping, telnet etc. at the 
> command line are going to be using 192, right? So what, at 
> this point directs them to 111 via tun0?
> 
> I've not found anything referring to link#x? Where'd that 
> come from? Is that the "link" between 192 and 111?
> 
> The "enable dns" seems to have no effect. Is resolv.conf 
> supposed to be created automatically? Or does this need to 
> exist, containing the isp dns's?
> 
> Also, the second time ppp runs after boot and trys to do the 
> add route it generates "add route failed" messages.
> 
> Is anybody using ppp from 3.4 successfully? Set up as 
> defined in the docs/man pages?
> 
> There is a mention of a "add default HISADDR" bug back at 
> obsd 3.0, a fix, and a workaround involving sed scripts in 
> ppp.linkup. Anybody have any info on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mac