[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Neil Hunt]

To receive calls you set up mgetty or something similar.  It's all outlined in the PPP-HOWTO.

Neil

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:39:44PM +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> It took two evenings and a lot of head scratching, but I got there. It is 
> now doing the dial on demand like a pro.
> Many, many thanks for your help Steve.
> 
> Anyone like to give some hints of setting up a second ppp interface to 
> receive calls?
> 
> 
> At 10:44 15/03/2000 +0800, you wrote:
> 
> >>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?
> >
> >I use linuxconf (in Networking, Client Tasks, PPP) for general config of 
> >PPP (ppp0 in my case) then refine it in the scripts. Make sure Set default 
> >route (in Customize under ppp0 config) is toggled on.
> >
> >demand (which implies persist), nopersist, holdoff, idle etc can be 
> >specified in the /etc/ppp/options file in RH6.1 (see man pppd for 
> >explanations of the options). One options suite which works for me is:
> >
> >lock
> >demand
> >idle 600
> >holdoff 600
> >nopersist
> >
> >You've no doubt found chat-ppp in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> >
> >I choose to kick off /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp ifcfg-ppp0 
> >from /etc/rc.d/rc.local to bring the interface up at boot time for a 
> >dial-on-demand machine. (I also bring up IP masquerading at this time, but 
> >that's another issue).
> >
> >Hope this moves you one step closer.
> >Steve
> 
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