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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!plaster.csdc.toshiba.com.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (McGraw-Hill CEC) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,io.support.unix Subject: Re: PPP setup causing an error? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,io.support.unix Date: 22 Mar 1996 16:25:50 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4iukae$hoh@news2.cais.com> References: <4ind5k$pmk@news1.io.org> <31503619.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> <4itl6b$ac6@news1.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : >If you're trying to use slip now then something, somewhere is still : >erroneously attempting to use tun0. Are you sure you removed it from : >your /etc/sysconfig file? tun0 is unused by SLIP. : I haven't set up for SLIP yet. This began to happen as soon as I'd completed : the setup for PPP. What I was saying was that I hadn't tracked this down yet : and so was planning to try SLIP and see if it worked any better. Yechh, don't use SLIP. Somewhere in the ppp.configure files and samples is info on setting teh timeout delay for tun0; which can be set to zero to eliminate the timeout. The messages you see, FYI, are root informational messages that go to the root console whenever BSD figgers something noteworthy has transpired -- like "user bozo flubbed logon tty3" and other stuff like that.