I abandoned diald-0.16 as I just couldn't work out why it was dying
(SuSE 6.1/glibc2.0.7/2.2.9 kernel). Taking on board the remarks I've seen in the
archives about the 2.2 kernel's tendency to set up superfluous routes,
I installed diald-0.99.
The link now seems to go up and down correctly, diald does not die any more,
there are no more complaints about 'sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality?'
(as sl0 is no longer used) and there are no more errors like 'Nonzero exit
status (7) on command '/sbin/route add 158.152.1.222 metric 1 dev sl0'.
However, there are now some other rather strange errors showing up in the log
file. Is anyone able to shed some light on what these strange error codes mean?
When diald runs the connect script:
running '/etc/suseppp/scripts/generic.connect'
connector: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: No such file or directory
When a FIFO "down" request is received, or closing down idle link:
running '/sbin/ifconfig tap0 193.237.131.114 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 broadcast
0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric 0 mtu 1500 up'
start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported
SIGCHLD[55]: pid 6267 system, status 256
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Immediately after pppd negotiation completes:
running '/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 193.237.131.114 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 broadcast
0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric 0 mtu 1500 up'
start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported
SIGCHLD[65]: pid 6293 system, status 256
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Immediately after pppd exits (returning 256 as shown below), two scenarios:
(A) diald closes down link from this end
SIGCHLD[60]: pid 5388 link, status 256
running '/sbin/ifconfig tap0 193.237.131.114 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 broadcast
0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric 0 mtu 1500 up'
start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported
SIGCHLD[61]: pid 6274 system, status 256
start tap0: Establishing routes for tap0
running '/sbin/route add 158.152.1.222 metric 0 dev tap0'
start tap0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIGCHLD[62]: pid 6275 system, status 1792
running '/sbin/route add default metric 0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev tap0'
start tap0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIGCHLD[63]: pid 6276 system, status 1792
(B) modem hangs up unexpectedly at the remote end:
SIGCHLD[70]: pid 6290 link, status 256
running '/sbin/ifconfig tap0 193.237.131.114 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 broadcast
0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric 0 mtu 1500 up'
start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported
SIGCHLD[71]: pid 6539 system, status 256
start tap0: Establishing routes for tap0
running '/sbin/route add 158.152.1.222 metric 0 dev tap0'
SIGCHLD[72]: pid 6540 system, status 0
running '/sbin/route add default metric 0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev tap0'
SIGCHLD[73]: pid 6541 system, status 0
stop ppp0: Removing routes for ppp0
running '/sbin/route del default metric 0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev ppp0'
stop ppp0: SIOCDELRT: No such process
SIGCHLD[74]: pid 6542 system, status 1792
running '/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 0.0.0.0'
ppp: ppp0 not active
stop ppp0: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device not configured
SIGCHLD[75]: pid 6543 system, status 65280
Link died on remote end.
running '/sbin/ifconfig tap0 193.237.131.114 pointopoint 158.152.1.222 broadcast
0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 metric 0 mtu 1500 up'
start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported
SIGCHLD[76]: pid 6544 system, status 256
start tap0: Establishing routes for tap0
running '/sbin/route add 158.152.1.222 metric 0 dev tap0'
start tap0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIGCHLD[77]: pid 6545 system, status 1792
running '/sbin/route add default metric 0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev tap0'
start tap0: SIOCADDRT: File exists
SIGCHLD[78]: pid 6546 system, status 1792
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK)
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