From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 20:18:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A2A37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from unknown (HELO as2.kptn.org) (203.106.174.155) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 03:18:23 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:22:32 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52 Beta/4) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <395951968.20010418112232@yahoo.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: stop ppp dialing on boot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello list, i have been searching around for a way to stop ppp from dialing when the machine boots up but so far, i cannot say that i have found an answer. hopefully someone here can help me out :) i have a very simple lan comprising of a fbsd server (4.3-rc) that serves as a gateway to 2 other machines running ntws and 98. ppp is configured and i can dial 'ppp -auto provider' w/ no problems from a ssh session from nt (telnet is disabled). now, this seems very unconventional that i have to make a ssh session everytime i want to connect to my isp. furthermore, the person behind the machine running 98 has zero knowledge of doing anything of that sort (i.e. telnet, ssh... ) ok, so i set up ppp to dial when there's a connection going out of my lan when the system boots up. but... somehow, it dials everytime it boots up instead of when it detects an outbound connection from my lan. and i dont want that (dialing upon booting up) since i'm charged on a per-minute dialup basis. anyways, i'm including part my rc.conf config if someone can have a look at it and tell me where i did wrong. start my rc.conf =========================================================== # ### Basic network: ### network_interfaces="lo0 rl0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" hostname="my.domain.org" # ### Network routing options: ### gateway_enable="YES" router_enable="NO" defaultrouter="NO" forward_sourceroute="NO" accept_sourceroute="NO" tcp_drop_synfin="NO" # Set to YES to drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN tcp_restrict_rst="NO" # Set to YES to restrict emission of RST firewall_enable="YES" firewall_type="open" firewall_quite="YES" natd_enable="YES" natd_interface="tun0" natd_flags="-dynamic" # # User ppp configuration. ppp_enable="YES" ppp_mode="auto" ppp_nat="NO" ppp_profile="provider" =========================================================== end my rc.conf if ppp_enable="NO", i then have to manually dial. if ppp_enable="YES", it dials on booting up :( so, how can i make it dial ONLY when it detects an outbound traffic? thanks for looking into this. -- Alvin mailto:bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message