Re: NM using Option card

[Markus Becker <mab comnets uni-bremen de>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 21:19 +0100, Markus Becker wrote:
> > Feb  7 20:56:34 shelbyville pppd[10716]: Could not determine remote
> > IP
> > address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64

Searching the web for this, reveals, that this seems to be very common 
with UMTS dialup, but works nevertheless, if the DNS is correct, e.g. 
something like 194.48.139.254. If I enter that manually into 
/etc/resolv.conf, the connection works. But why is ppp not getting DNS 
addresses?

> That bit looks suspect...  Never seen that message from pppd before, but
> it might have something to do with it.  I had to modify the ppp helper
> code when adding CDMA support to grab the remote IP address and set that
> as the interface's P-t-P address, otherwise my Sprint cards wouldn't
> work.  Previously to this, the interface's P-t-P address was getting set
> to the same address as the interface address.
>
> Ultimate fail:
>
> pppd/ipcp.c
>    if (ho->hisaddr == 0) {
> 	ho->hisaddr = htonl(0x0a404040 + ifunit);
> 	warn("Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to %I",
> 	     ho->hisaddr);
>    }
>
> WTF?????
>
> Maybe NetworkManager should trap that magic and replace it with the
> interface address like use to happen before.
>
> Dan