[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Chris Griffin]

So far I have only been using the gui interface to pppd under KDE. This 
makes no mention of the 'demand' and 'defaultroute' options. I have also 
been looking under the bonnet to find these scripts and get into them. 
There  seems to be at least two areas that contain such files: /etc/ppp and 
/sysconfig/network-scripts.
I have been looking at the doco and so far have not had much success.
Any chance of a little more info on the scripts you are using, where the 
should be located and how/when to activate them?

Regards,
Chris

At 09:11 14/03/2000 +0800, you wrote:

>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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