[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Chris Griffin]

Thanks Neil,

Just need a pointer to get me going.

Regards,
Chris

At 14:45 17/03/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>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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