If this isn't the right place for this, I apologize. Feel free to set
followups appropriately.
I'm running ppp on a -current system (12/7/2000 vintage) named `moran'.
I'm using it as a gateway for small in-home network (a couple of windoze
boxes and a laptop running -stable), and I have NAT enabled.
ppp is started automatically at boot as follows:
/usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -auto -nat mintel
Here's the appropriate part of ppp.conf:
mintel:
allow users rjk
set openmode active 5
set phone 1234567
set timeout 2700
set socket /var/tmp/internet ""
set authname a
set authkey b
deny lqr
disable lqr
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
delete all
add default HISADDR
enable dns
In ppp.linkdown, I have:
mintel:
iface clear
I'm using 10.1.0.0/24 internally, and moran is also running dhcpd and
samba. Everything is working fine, except (you knew there'd be an except,
right?:) the windoze boxes on my local network can't find the samba server
on moran immediately after moran reboots. After some experimenting with
config files and playing with ethereal, I think I know what's going on but
I don't know what to do about it.
If I don't put "10.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts, rebooting is very slow;
I have to wait for ppp to make a connection before sendmail gets going. If
I add it to /etc/hosts I don't have to wait on sendmail but I have problems
with nmbd.
With the above configuration for ppp, ifconfig always shows 2 IP addresses
associated with tun0. Immediately after boot, it looks like (for example):
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1514
inet 10.0.0.1 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff
inet 63.xx.xx.13 --> 63.xx.xx.2 netmask 0xff000000
Opened by PID 115
After I lose my connection for whatever reason (which normally happens at
least 3 or 4 times a day with our local telephone service :() ppp
automatically redials and reconnects. After this happens, ifconfig would
show:
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1514
inet 63.xx.xx.13 --> 255.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff
inet 63.xx.xx.47 --> 63.xx.xx.2 netmask 0xff000000
Opened by PID 115
The 10. address is gone, my last address is still there but points to
255.255.255.255, and my new address is fine.
ethereal shows that nmbd is saying it lives at 10.0.0.1. If I kill nmbd
and restart it after having lost and remade my ppp connection, everything
is fine.
Note that this only affects nmbd. Browsers and ssh work just fine.
Have I got something misconfigured? Should ppp be keeping my last IP
address around like that?
Sorry for the length of this message.
Any comments and/or suggestions?
Thanks.
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Richard Kuhns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \
100 Sawmill Road x319
Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 /
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