>>>>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sorry for the delay in followup; Life is keeping me from chasing this
down. However, the problem[1] still exists. I'm running woody; apt-get
dist-upgraded as of this afternoon, which puts me at:
[jacobs in ~]-> dpkg --list | grep ppp
ii ppp 2.3.11-1.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.
Rest of reply below:
John> john s jacobs anderson writes:
>> However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing,
>> this behavior changed; giving the demand option now appears to
>> require a fixed remote IP, at least according to man pppd...
John> The man page is wrong.
Good to know; is a bug report needed?
>> ...and actually sets that IP to something in the 10.n.n.n net...
John> It sets the local IP address to 10.64.64.64 and the remote to
John> 10.112.112.112 while the link is down, but these are dummies.
John> They are replaced with the dynamic IP's when the link comes
John> up.
Also good to know.
However, as I said above, this is still broken. I checked ppp.log, and
found this slightly more informative error:
Feb 23 01:41:03 genehack pppd[1168]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 23 01:41:03 genehack pppd[1168]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
proxy ARP
Feb 23 01:41:03 genehack pppd[1168]: local IP address 10.64.64.64
Feb 23 01:41:03 genehack pppd[1168]: remote IP address 10.112.112.112
Feb 23 01:41:05 genehack pppd[1168]: read: Bad file descriptor(9)
Feb 23 01:41:05 genehack pppd[1168]: Exit.
That was after the following:
(a) change /etc/ppp/peers/provider to use 'demand'
(b) issue `pon && fetchmail`
(c) wait for DNS timeout
(d) tail /var/log/ppp.log
Suggestions as to what to do now? I'm relatively new to Debian; I'm
guessing a bug report is in order?
Thanks,
john.
Footnotes:
[1] Basically, dial-on-demand no longer works; a provider file that
is otherwise identical, with only the 'demand' line commented
out, does work. It used to work, apx. 3 weeks ago.
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