Hello,

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:24 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 18:28 +0100, Luís Miguel dos Reis Oliveira e Silva
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm using the latest networkmanager and plugins avaliable from ubuntu
> > karmic repositories and it has being working great so far. But I
> > noticed something that I don't think is right...
> > 
> > I'm using pptp plugin in order to connect to a VPN and the connection
> > works great, but if I execute "ifconfig ppp0" (the device created by
> > NM), i see that "inet addr" is *equal* to "P-t-P". In daemon.log,
> > "Internal IP4 Address" and "Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address" are
> > different. The "inet addr" that appears in ifconfig (and also "P-t-P")
> > is the same as "Internal IP4 Address".
> > 
> > Is this normal?
> 
> Yeah, it should be valid; nm-pptp uses the options that PPP passes it,
> so I'd expect that this address came directly from PPP.  Is it causing
> any problems?
> 
> Dan


Acording to network manager log (daemon.log) it receives "Internal IP4
Address" (masked as aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa) and "Internal IP4 Point-to-Point
Address" (masked as bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb), which are different. But
nevertheless, the data reported by ifconfig ppp0 is "inet
addr:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa  P-t-P:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa" (these two are the same and
equal to "Internal IP4 Address"). Isn't this a little strange? Shouldn't
the "P-t-P" reported by ifconfig ppp0 be the same as the "Internal IP4
Point-to-Point Address" that appears in daemon.log?

Everything works ok, at least on the ppp connection I use, but I still
think is strange... I'm just trying to learn, not saying that there is
something wrong with network-manager...

> 
> > Example:
> > ifconfig ppp0
> > ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
> >           inet addr:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa  P-t-P:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa
> > Mask:255.255.255.255
> >           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1400  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
> >           RX bytes:143 (143.0 B)  TX bytes:131 (131.0 B)
> > 
> > 
> > NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Gateway: 0.0.0.0
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Tunnel Device: ppp0
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Address: aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Prefix: 32
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address:
> > bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Maximum Segment Size (MSS): 0
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > NetworkManager: <info>  DNS Domain: '(none)'
> > NetworkManager: <info>  Login Banner:
> > NetworkManager: <info>  -----------------------------------------
> > NetworkManager: <info>  (null)
> > NetworkManager: <info>  -----------------------------------------
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Luís Silva 
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