>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Carlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brett> john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb:
Brett> Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for
Brett> how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as you
Brett> describe:
well, now that I know it's just me...
>> ...giving the pon command would start pppd, but nothing else
>> would occur until data needed to be sent. The system would then
>> dial-out...
Brett> Have you tried causing network traffic to see what happens?
Brett> If pppd is trying to dial out but failing to negotiate a
Brett> connection, you may need to enable the `ipcp-accept-local'
Brett> and `ipcp-accept-remote' options so pppd will accept whatever
Brett> IPs your ISP assigns. `pon' will still set local & remote
Brett> IPs initially, but the real connection will override them
Brett> when it comes up.
here's my /etc/ppp/peers/provider:
# This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.0.3.
#
#
hide-password
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"
debug
/dev/ttyS2
115200
defaultroute
noipdefault
user Pjacobs
remotename provider
ipparam provider
demand
idle 600
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
here's what /var/log/messages looks like after `pon`:
Feb 17 20:50:59 genehack pppd[28000]: pppd 2.3.11 started by jacobs, uid 1000
Feb 17 20:50:59 genehack pppd[28000]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 17 20:50:59 genehack pppd[28000]: local IP address 10.64.64.64
Feb 17 20:50:59 genehack pppd[28000]: remote IP address 10.112.112.112
(note that jacobs is my normal userid; and is in the dialout group.)
after i give `fetchmail`, this gets put into /var/log/messages:
Feb 17 20:51:02 genehack pppd[28000]: Exit.
and the ppp0 interface goes away.
commenting out the 'demand' line in the provider file and giving `pon`
causes a normal connection to be made, right away.
the only other thing I can think that might be of help:
> dpkg --list | grep ppp
ii gpppon 0.2-1 A gnome applet that is a wrapper around pon
ii ppp 2.3.11-1.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.
ii pppconfig 2.0.4 A text menu based utility for configuring pp
ii wmppp.app 1.3.0-1 A PPP and network load monitor with the NeXT
this was working until some point late last week or early this week;
I'm not exactly sure which dist-upgrade broke it.
any help welcomed.
thanks,
john.
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