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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: permission denied with cu ???
Date: 10 Apr 1997 14:41:17 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <334bf580.46770010@news.remsmurr.de>,
	sigi@remsmurr.de (Sigi) writes:
> But there is always a problem with the ppp dialing. If I start "ppp
> ondemand" I get an message that "SIOCAIFADDR" already exists and it
> doesn't work. What is this ???

This sounds like a misconfigured tun device.  Have you looked at the
handbook entry for setting up ppp ?  Also, try the pmdemand example
in ppp.conf.sample.

It looks like your ifaddr line conflicts with a route that's already
in your routing table.

> 
>>Please give me a chance and help me. Thanks.
>>
>>Sigi     sigi@remsmurr.de
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !