---Reply to mail from jac--no-spam about [masq] [masq] Masquerade and pppd Demand
Dialing---
Hello Jack,
The way I am set-up for demand-dialing is to use the /etc/ppp/peers/
directory. In this directory I have placed a pppd options file with the name
of my ISP. This file is used, in place of a normal /etc/ppp/options file,
when I start pppd at boot as a daemon. Basically, the link is set-up,
serial port locked, and all that stuff, and then asked to wait for ip traffic
before dialing to complete the connection. I don't think your setup will
work with mine. But, I am still interested in how this alternative to
placing the nameserver addresses in /etc/resolv.conf, works. So If it's not
too much trouble, please do send me the ppp-on and ppp-off scripts. (Who
knows, maybe I will find a way to make it work.) ;-)
Thanks a lot for the time you've taken to help with this problem.
Have a great day,
Paul
> Having pppd come up at boot is part of the problem. That's what RH
> does by default, so I don't set up ppp during installation. Instead, I
> use the ppp-on and ppp-off scripts, as described in the PPP-client HOWTO.
> The other thing is, I don't put the ISP nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.
> The only place I put them is in the ppp-on script, so they effectively
> don't exist for my system until the link comes up. If you need to see
> them, let me know, and I'll e-mail them to you with the passwords
> removed.
>
> Jack Carroll
>
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<http://www.premier1.net/~ppw3>
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