Re: pppd has its own will?

["parksie ;-)" <mike_(_at_)_parksie_(_dot_)_net>]

One forward later...


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From: David Reid <dreid_(_at_)_jetnet_(_dot_)_co_(_dot_)_uk>
To: parksie ;-) <mike_(_at_)_parksie_(_dot_)_net>
Subject: Re: Re: pppd has its own will?]
Date: 02 Jan 2003 23:04:50 +0000

Hmm, what platform are you on? Which drivers are you using? On macppc
with -current trying to use the speedtouch driver from sf gives me a locked
machine requiring a hard reboot, whereas an identical configuration on 2.9
and 3.0 was fine. I really need to get it fixed as it used to be my gateway
and the world isn't the same without it :(

david

----- Original Message -----
From: "parksie ;-)" <mike_(_at_)_parksie_(_dot_)_net>
To: <misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:23 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: pppd has its own will?]


> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:15, Matteo Cavalleri wrote:
> > i'va an adsl connection, an alcatel speed touch home and of course
> > openbsd 3.2 :) i connect using pptp from the ports.
> >
> > today pppd changed my ip with no apparent reason, with the consequence
> > that 1) all my connections dropped, 2) some of my pf rules were "out of
> > date", 3) my dyndns account pointed to a wrong ip
> >
> > this seems very strange, and after googling a bit and asking to my
> > friends i still can't understand why it happened...
> >
> > this is from /var/log/messages
> >
> > Jan  2 12:00:01 meshuggah NTP: Thu Jan  2 12:00:05 CET 2003
> > Jan  2 12:00:01 meshuggah NTP: rdate: adjust local clock by 3.389761
seconds
> > Jan  2 14:00:02 meshuggah syslogd: restart
> > Jan  2 14:40:00 meshuggah pppd[27798]: local  IP address 217.133.238.201
> > Jan  2 14:40:00 meshuggah pppd[27798]: remote IP address 195.130.236.117
> > Jan  2 18:00:01 meshuggah syslogd: restart
> >
> > this is from /var/log/ppp.log
> >
> > Jan  1 18:16:07 meshuggah pppd[27798]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp0
> > Jan  1 18:16:34 meshuggah pppd[27798]: Remote message:
> > Jan  1 18:16:34 meshuggah pppd[27798]: local  IP address 217.133.228.22
> > Jan  1 18:16:34 meshuggah pppd[27798]: remote IP address 195.130.236.117
> > Jan 1 18:16:35 meshuggah adsl[9645]: Connection successful.
> > Jan  2 14:40:00 meshuggah pppd[27798]: Remote message:
> > Jan  2 14:40:00 meshuggah pppd[27798]: local  IP address 217.133.238.201
> > Jan  2 14:40:00 meshuggah pppd[27798]: remote IP address 195.130.236.117
> >
> > any idea?
>
> Probably just the ISP resetting your connection (BT do it to me
> occasionally over my aDSL with a speedtouch USB). This is what I have in
> my link files:
>
>
> #ppp.linkup
> MYADDR:
>  ! sh -c "/sbin/route del default"
>  ! sh -c "/sbin/route add default HISADDR"
>  ! sh -c "/sbin/pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf -e"
>
>
> #ppp.linkdown
> MYADDR:
>  ! sh -c "/sbin/pfctl -F all -d"
>
>
> PPP *should* run the contents of those files when it reconnects.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mike.