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- From: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer)
- Subject: Re: SVR4 Esix 4.0.3 & PPP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.190637.22704@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
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- References: <RAYMOND.93Jan2002902@boa.es.ele.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:06:37 GMT
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- Raymond Nijssen (raymond@es.ele.tue.nl) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec29.042829.10957@hawkmoon.mn.org> det@hawkmoon.mn.org (Derek Terveer) writes:
- :
- : > Well, I finally have PPP up and working pretty well between my box (Esix
- : > 4.0.3) and a sun at work (SunOS 4.1.3). However, I haven't been able to
- : > get it to work the other way round, albeit I seem tantalizingly close.
- : > If anybody has already tackled this problem (and had experience with
- : > other problems that I am having with, routing through an established PPP
- : > gateway to other machines on the remote network, [...]
- :
- : Both routed and gated (from Cornell) have trouble with popup-interfaces. All
- : implementations I've seen so far only look for interfaces at startup, so
- : they're not aware of interfaces ifconfig(1m)-ed afterwards, so you have to try
- : to get it work by installing static routes. This works for me.
-
- hmmm, ok -- do you mean somehow preconfiguring with static routes
- (route add hawkmoon medusa 1) on the sun side or the esix side or
- both? Are the routed and gated that you are talking about the sun
- versions? If you are talking about adding static routes for the sun
- side, i presume that i should be able to add the appropriate route add ...
- commands in the /etc/rc.boot file, or perhaps in the rc.local file,
- before the routed daemon is called?
-
- thanks for the help you have given so far, i will try adding some
- static routes to one of my rc files..
-
- derek
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