From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 18:57:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA29778 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 18:57:58 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29773 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 18:57:53 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA02650; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:51:50 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511070251.CAA02650@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ppp again To: clouds@rmii.com (Philip Duclos) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:51:50 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Philip Duclos" at Nov 6, 95 07:43:12 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1493 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Philip Duclos stands accused of saying: > > I'll ask my question again... > > The man page for ppp doesn't come close to explaining how ppp works. Yes, I > know that its a contribution from a Japanese developer and I appreciate > his work and desire to share it with us. However the -auto feature does not > autoconnect and in the interactive mode. once I'm disconnected I can't get > it to reconnect. Auto mode _does_ autoconnect, and manual mode isn't supposed to reconnect. > I strongly suspect that some portion of my configuration is incorrect however > it *does* match the suggested setup. > > Auto mode means something like - > > ppp -auto rmii > > was added to one of your startup files. You expect ppp to autodial and connect > whenever you access a non-local node on your network. > > If you were able to get ppp to work in the fashion described above, please > briefly explain how you did it. My guess is that you've forgotten to add a route to the host at the other end of the dial-on-demand link, so data never gets sent out to it, and thus the demand dialler doesn't dial. > Phil Duclos -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[