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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.108.254.3!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: Chris Rosebrugh <chrisr@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PPP server help Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:50:41 -0800 Organization: Actus Corporation Lines: 73 Sender: -yp- @204.245.238.82 Message-ID: <32FFC261.27F4@pobox.com> Reply-To: chrisr@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.245.238.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35451 I set up 2.1.0 as a ppp server for one dialin client using pppd. things work fine for a while, but then the routes get messed up on the server. after i connect and things are running okay (the pppclient route is properly setup, i can do echos, http acces, etc from the client), my routes look like the following. pppclient is my statically assigned IP address for my client. ====== % netstat -r Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default vadem.bbnplanet.ne UGSc 4 43 ed0 localhost.vadem. localhost.vadem.co UH 1 0 lo0 205.226.240 link#1 UC 1 0 vadem.bbnplanet. 0:0:c:8d:43:ed UHLW 3 0 ed0 891 volley2.vadem.co localhost.vadem.co UGHS 1 11 lo0 pppclient volley2.vadem.com UH 0 11 ppp0 BASE-ADDRESS.MCA link#1 UCS 0 0 % arp -a vadem.bbnplanet.net (205.226.240.1) at 0:0:c:8d:43:ed ====== after a couple of disconnects and reconnects the pppclient turns into this dangling route: ====== % netstat -r Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default vadem.bbnplanet.ne UGSc 4 43 ed0 localhost.vadem. localhost.vadem.co UH 1 0 lo0 205.226.240 link#1 UC 1 0 vadem.bbnplanet. 0:0:c:8d:43:ed UHLW 3 0 ed0 855 volley2.vadem.co localhost.vadem.co UGHS 1 11 lo0 pppclient link#1 UHLW 0 0 BASE-ADDRESS.MCA link#1 UCS 0 0 % arp -a vadem.bbnplanet.net (205.226.240.1) at 0:0:c:8d:43:ed pppclient (205.226.240.209) at (incomplete) ======= i've tried a bunch of combos in the /etc/ppp/options file, including with and without proxyarp. similarly. i've tried kernels with and without the GATEWAY and ARP_PROXYALL options. as well, i've tried various entries in the /etc/gateways file (as per man -s 8 route). all combos end up with this strange condition. any help will be very much appreciated. thanks.