From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 31 12:47:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 12:47:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whiterose.net (whiterose.net [199.245.105.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B07137B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:47:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccrider2k (adsl-141-151-201-154.cptl.adsl.bellatlantic.net [141.151.201.154]) by whiterose.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id eBVKlob19221; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:47:50 -0500 From: "Robert Myers" To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" , "'keith'" Cc: Subject: RE: DOD PPP and multiple ISP's Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:45:44 -0500 Message-ID: <002501c0736a$ac2d4730$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <0012310656450B.01493@buffy> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff, This is from the man page for ppp In -auto mode, at least one ``system'' must be given on the com- mand line (see below) Not sure if you could use multiple system names there or not, and even if that helps you do what you want. Maybe if the first system is tried and it does not answer it would go to the second one? Robert Myers Systems Administrator White Rose Internet Service http://whiterose.net (717)439-1478 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 12:57 AM To: keith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOD PPP and multiple ISP's On Sunday 31 December 2000 06:09, keith wrote: > man ppp > /DIAL ON DEMAND > > It's all right there. No it isn't, perhaps I didn't explain it well. When you start DOD you give it a label that refers to an entry in the ppp.conf file. I was asking whether I can tell PPP dynamically to read a different entry without manual intervention.. Cliff > > Keith > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to set up DOD PPP on my BSD gateway to magically dial different > > ISP's in some way or another. I can think of some brute force ways of > > doing this but does anyone know of an elegant way ? > > > > Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message