[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Neil Hunt]

OK.. mgetty is very simple.. add a line to your /etc/inittab like
S0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
then edit /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 (or ttyS1 depending on which com port)
put something like
modem debug lock crtscts proxyarp 192.168.100.1:192.168.100.10
and you'll have dialin...
The ppp man page and ppp-howto will tell you what each of these options does.

Neil 

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:23:39PM +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> 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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>                                \\  - -  //
>                                 (  @ @  )
> +----------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------+
> | Chris Griffin, Senior Network Engineer                |
> | Email: chris.griffin at mitswa.com.au                    |
> | Managed Information Technology Solutions (M.I.T.S)    |
> | 1st Floor, Batholomew House, 31 Ventnor Avenue,       |
> | West Perth W.A. 6005                                  |
> | PH: +61 (08) 9481-4066  FAX: +61 (08) 9481-4064       |
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>    somewhere.                 \ (    (_/
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