ppp link always dials when started with -auto?

From: David Carter-Hitchin (david_at_carter-hitchin.clara.co.uk)
Date: 10/31/03

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    Hi All,

    Hoping someone really clever knows the answer here (I asked on the
    'questions' mailing list and I got no response). This problem is really
    getting to me - I can normally solve problems on my own with some googling
    and reading the man pages, but this one has me beat.

    Briefly:

    4.8-RELEASE "ppp -auto" always dials
    Turned off sendmail - same result
    Booted in single user mode - same result
    Read /usr/share/examples/ppp, man ppp, ppp faq, searched google.

    Need to know what or why the ppp link is being brought up. Original
    message with my config and logs below. I was running 4.9-RC and as an
    attempt to fix it I regressed to 4.8 (the day before 4.9 was released :-)

    Many thanks in advance,
    David

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:19:10 +0000 (GMT)
    From: David Carter-Hitchin <david@carter-hitchin.clara.co.uk>
    To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    Subject: ppp link always dials when started with -auto?

    Hi FreeBSD'ers,

    I've just upgraded to 4.9-RC (from 4.2) and I'm really happy with
    everything except ppp.

    Whenever I start ppp (with ppp -auto pmdemand) it immediately starts to
    dial - after connecting it briefly sends and receives a minimal amount of
    data then sits there idly.

    One other problem I've got with my upgrade is that I'm getting pam errors:

    Oct 26 20:26:25 stoat login: no modules loaded for `login' service
    Oct 26 20:26:25 stoat login: pam_open_session: Permission denied

    (related?)

    I've read the ppp faq and this question is covered and it says sendmail is
    the often the culprit. This rang loud bells as I saw that the more recent
    version of sendmail has depreciated the 'nodns' feature. So I tried
    rebooting without sendmail running, but still the same problem. I tried
    killing off a few daemons including inetd, lpd, usbd.. but no joy.

    I added "log All +tcp/ip" to get the full output, but I don't know enough
    about this stuff to go further. I initially get the following lines in
    the log:

    Oct 26 21:17:32 stoat ppp[466]: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT
    <0>: fe80::240:95ff:fe44:3e11 ---> ff02::1:ff44:3e11 (72)

    Oct 26 21:17:32 stoat ppp[466]: tun0: TCP/IP: OUT ICMP: :::135 --->
    ff02::1:ff44:3e11 (16/64)

    I've uploaded the rest of the conversation to:

    http://www.carter-hitchin.clara.co.uk/logs/ppp.log.gz

    My setup is an isolated workstation (no LAN, occasional dialup). Here are
    some outputs:

    [516]->uname -a
    FreeBSD stoat.clara.net 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Sat Oct 18 13:56:46 BST
    2003 david@stoat.clara.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STOAT i386

    [517]->cat /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
    default:
     #set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
     set log All
     ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)
     set device /dev/cuaa0
     set speed 115200
     set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
              \"\" ATM1 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
     enable dns

    pmdemand:
     set timeout 300 # 3 mintue idle timer (the
    default)
     set phone XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
     set authname XXXXX
     set authkey XXXXXX
     add default HISADDR # Add a (sticky) default route
     set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.255

    [68]->cat /etc/resolv.conf
    domain=stoat
    nameserver 195.8.69.7
    nameserver 195.8.69.12

    [69]->cat /etc/hosts
    ::1 localhost localhost.clara.net
    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.clara.net stoat.clara.net
    127.0.0.1 stoat stoat.clara.net
    127.0.0.1 carter-hitchin.clara.co.uk

    I'd really appreciate some help here - I'm stuck in being able to
    identify precisely what is using the link.

    Many thanks,
    David.

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