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From: evanc@synapse.net (Evan Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems with pppd
Date: 22 Jun 1995 17:16:31 GMT
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I am trying to use pppd (not the tun-based ppp) on a FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE 
system.

It works perfectly except for the following 2 problems:

1.  when the user logs out, the pppd does not exit.  pppd will run for hours 
and hours (basically until I kill it off) without recognizing the user has 
left.  This leaves the port in a not very good state for the next user.

I tried adding stty -clocal hupcl before starting pppd but it didn't help.

2.  the 'proxyarp' command line option does not add the remote host to the 
arp table.

The tun-based ppp would not proxy arp either but did do the hangup properly.  
The problem with the tun-based ppp is that users get dumped a few minutes 
after connection.

I much prefer the way pppd works so I would appreciate it if someone could 
help me get pppd to work properly.

Thanks very much.

Evan
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