Have you tried running 'tcpdump -i ppp0' to see what traffic is
	actually going across the link? (You may want to post some of the
	output to this list :)

		David/abs

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
 to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
 what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, wb2oyc wrote:

> If you're using Bill's kit, its already there.
> 
> Try doing a 'route flush' before connecting via ppp, IF you want the
> ppp link to be the defaultroute!  Thats what I do.  If I don't, I get
> errors from the pppd trying to set the default, because theres already
> another one defined!  If you don't want that link to provide the default,
> you should REMOVE that statement from the options file, and probably
> setup some static routes.
> 
> I'd like to ask a question regarding PPP myself, and that is, I see
> some process fill the link with traffic as soon as I try to do anything
> across it (telnet, netstat, anything).  It kills the performance and it
> never seems to stop!  I thought it was routed, and I still suspect its
> advertising its routes, or whatever it does.  But, I killed it, and it
> still persists.  Is the kernel doing this because it sees the two possible
> networks (my ethernet and now the network to which I'm connecting)?
> 
> I don't see this behavior when connecting to this same service with any
> other system using PPP to build the link.  And that includes FreeBSD, 
> Linux (various flavors) and even Win95 or NT.  The only one that does
> this is NetBSD/mac68k.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Paul
>