[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Steve Baker]

You are using the 'demand' and 'defaultroute' options for pppd, right?  I
start pppd in an rc script, with these options set.  When it sees any
traffic, it brings the link up.  Check out these options in man pppd, also
the holdoff and idle options.

bakes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Griffin <chrisg at doladns.dola.wa.gov.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2000 8:59
Subject: [plug] Dial on Demand question


>My apologies, it seems I forgot to mention that it is on a RedHat 6.1
system.
>I have been playing around with the dial up networking and although I have
>the dial up networking going manually, it does not route unless I put in a
>manual route.
>So, I guess I need to get the routing issue solved and then work out how to
>get it to automatically dial on demand. Then, set up another connection to
>accept the dial in of the user on the other modem.
>I have looked on the mailing list archive and found some info, but nothing
>to solve the problem, as yet.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Chris
>
>
>
>At 09:43 10/03/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>>I have a system at home that I am setting up for a friend that posses some
>>interesting questions, well for me anyway, and would appreciate some
>>help/advice.
>>
>>The system has two drives in it. The first is a 4GB of which I can have
>>1Gig for the system, the rest is for user data area. With all of the
>>system and facilities I had to install, it left me with that partition 93%
>>full. For this reason I fitted an old 240MB drive as a secondary and would
>>like to add this into the system. This raises two questions for me.
>>First, should I just move /var onto this drive or should I move other
>>areas onto it as well.
>>Secondly, how do I move it over without having to reinstall the system?
>>
>>The next problem/challenge:
>>
>>I need to set up some sort of "dial on demand" to get it to automatically
>>connect to their ISP when he dials in from home (it will have two modems)
>>and wants to send/receive email or browse the Internet.
>>  I am quite happy to read/use the doco, if someone could just point me in
>> the right direction for these.
>>
>>Many thanks folks.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Chris Griffin
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