>>>>> "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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \* <URL:http://genehack.org> */