I am also using ppp-2.3.11 and find that routes keep appearing and
disappearing. The only reference I have found is that if you run routed
then there is a time-out of some 3-4 minutes after the link is down after
which the routes are deleted. 
I think the issue of routing is not covered well in the ppp-HowTo and the
man pages and I wonder if someone can point us in the right direction as to
how pppd handles routing and especially what is the default activity of
pppd when it comes to adding and deleting routes. I have seen one person on
this list recommending that always add and delete routes yourself and dont
take pppd for granted. Is that the recommended practice ?
Regards
Rajiv
At 09:44 PM 1/6/00 +1000, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm experiencing a strange problem using pppd on a dialin linux box
>(Mandrake 6.1, Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk, Mgetty 1.1.14-9mdk and ppp-2.3.11)
>
>I recompiled pppd fresh from the distribution tarball, and enabled PAM
>support - everything else was left at Linux defaults.
>
>It seems that when pppd terminates, it is leaving the interface active
>(sometimes but not every time).
>
>pppd itself does seem to by terminating ok.
>
>Here is some output from route/ifconfig:
>
>203.xx.xx.101   *    255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp2
>203.xx.xx.101   *    255.255.255.255.UH    0      0        0 ppp3
>
>
>ppp2      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>          inet addr:203.xx.xx.1  P-t-P:203.xx.xx.101 Mask:255.255.255.255
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:194 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
>          TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
>ppp3      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>          inet addr:203.xx.xx.1  P-t-P:203.xx.xx.101 Mask:255.255.255.255
>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:12510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:13558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>I've tried going back to pppd 2.3.8 and the problem still occurs.
>
>Is this a kernel bug?  It seems unlikely as I'm using 2.2.13-22mdk which
>is meant to be stable.
>
>Could it be a bug on the 2.2.13-22 kernel?
>
>I'm yet to try 2.2.14 but I have my doubts that it is kernel related?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Matt
>=)
>
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