On Friday 19 October 2001 16:23, you wrote: > Hi, > > I've got LM 8.0 installed. > What is the best way to organize dial on demand for several > linux/win/mac boxes. > > Thanks > > Alex
Here's another method that is a bit more work initially, but I find that is works well. As root... In /etc/ppp/peers create a file. Name it for your isp, eg: /etc/ppp/peers/la-tierra. Put the following lines in the file. /dev/modem 115200 crtscts connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-la-tierra' noauth user yourusername In /etc/ppp create a chat file called chat-isp. Mine is chat-la-tierra. Enter the following: TIMEOUT 40 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT ERROR ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT BUSY ABORT "Username/Password Incorrect" "" ATZ OK AT&F1 OK ATDT5555555 CONNECT "" replace the 5555555 with your isp's phone number Modify your /etc/ppp/options file as follows: lock defaultroute 192.168.1.101:192.168.1.102 ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local demand holdoff 5 idle 300 The 'demand' entry is what makes dial-on-demand work. The ip addresses on the third line are dummies and must not exist on your local subnet. If your isp uses PAP or CHAP: Modify your /etc/chap-secrets and /etc/pap-secrets as follows: add the line username * password * If your isp requires a login script(EXPECT SEND pairs), add the script to the end of your chat-isp file. Enter your username and password of course. These entries should be separated by tabs. Both of these files are essentially the same. The permissions for these files should be set to 0600 or pppd will complain. Modify /etc/sysconfig/network change FORWARD_IPV4=false to FORWARD_IPV4=true remove any lines that start with GATEWAY or GATEWAYDEV To start pppd at boot, add the following to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. /usr/sbin/pppd call isp on your other computers, set the gateway entry to the ip of your linux box and the DNS entry to the ip of your isp's DNS server and dial-on-demand should work from any computer on your local subnet without the need for being logged into the Linux box. Much more detail can be found on mandrakeuser.org. This setup makes it fairly easy to reconfigure when upgrading if you back up your /etc directory prior to the upgrade and restore the appropriate files. There is a caveat. You will probably need to install and setup iptables to keep netbios name requests from your windows machines from triggering the dialer. hope this helps.
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