Greetings --
Just got started with Debian a week or two ago; moved rapidly from
slink to frozen, and am now running unstable. After an `apt-get
dist-upgrade` late last week or early this week (possibly Sunday?),
the handling of dial-on-demand PPP appears to have changed.
The way it was working: after using pppconfig and checking the
on-demand option, giving the pon command would start pppd, but nothing
else would occur until data needed to be sent. The system would then
dial-out, connect, get an IP, the data would go _swoosh_, and all was
hunky-dory. This was great; it was almost like being on a real
network, if you ignored the dial-in latency.
However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing, this
behavior changed; giving the demand option now appears to require a
fixed remote IP, at least according to man pppd (and actually sets
that IP to something in the 10.n.n.n net; I'm guessing this is based
on some netmask setting somewhere), whereas before this worked with a
dynamic remotely-assigned IP.
Is it possible to revert to the earlier behavior, and if so, how?
Thanks,
john.
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