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From: brian@columbia-center.org
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: PPP Users Get Knocked Off After PAP
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>Number:         2524
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       PPP Users Get Knocked Off After PAP
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brian
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 18 12:00:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Apr 14 12:35:58 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr 14 12:36:10 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Brian Vaerewyck
>Release:        BSD 2.0
>Organization:
Columbia Technology Center
>Environment:
1/17-02:12:05-17216 pppd: Fatal system error: Can't ifconfig du9 (SIOCSIFADDR):
File exists
>Description:
After the user connects using ppp with the Login Id and Password the
system dumps the user.

>How-To-Repeat:
Don't Know? Happens Frequently.
>Fix:
HELP!!!
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: brian@columbia-center.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2524: PPP Users Get Knocked Off After PAP
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 22:34:38 +0100

 As brian@columbia-center.org wrote:
 
 > 1/17-02:12:05-17216 pppd: Fatal system error: Can't ifconfig du9 (SIOCSIFADDR):
 > File exists
 
 Do you perchance have an ifconfig entry in /etc/sysconfig for ppp0?
 Remove it, it's bogus.
 
 If not, be more detailed about the interface configuration.  The
 message seems to indicate that you're trying to use a single IP
 address twice.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brian 
Responsible-Changed-By: brian 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Sep 10 15:04:18 PDT 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Pppd's mine (I guess) 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: brian 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 21 16:51:01 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
I'll need the logs (as per http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/userppp.html) 
if this is to be resolved.  Could the original submitter send them 
please ? 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 14 12:35:58 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
timed out 
>Unformatted:
