Re: (PM) location setup & dialout killing ether0 (PM3)

Doug Ingraham (dpi@rapidnet.com)
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:29:19 -0600 (MDT)

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, James Hamilton wrote:

> Hello, I've got a PM3 that I've set up for dialout. Every time I call my
> Netgear ISDN router ether0 quits talking so I have to do an
> ifconfig down then ifconfig up to reset it. It seems to only affect
> ether0, if I have 2 logins to the PM3 they can still talk locally to
> eachother. My location looks like:
>
> Location: jamesh Type: Manual
> Destination: 198.59.115.158 Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> Local IP: 198.59.115.110
> Protocol: PPP Options: Quiet, VJ-Comp
> Group: 0 Max Ports: 2
> Idle Timeout: 0 minutes High Mark: 0 bytes
> Mtu: 1500 Async Map: 00000000
> Username: someuser Password: xxxxxxx
>
> I'm a bit confused as to why this would occur. This PM3 is running ComOS
> 3.8 if that makes any difference. Any advice or comments would be
> appreciated!

You probably have the wrong netmask. It should probably be
255.255.255.255. The way you have it now it would try to route the whole
class C over that interface.

Doug Ingraham I have a simple philosophy:
Rapid City, SD Fill what's empty.
USA Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
-- A. R. Longworth

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