From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 05:10:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05386 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 05:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay03.indigo.ie (relay03.indigo.ie [194.125.133.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA05381 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 05:10:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from relyod@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 28949 messnum 46107 invoked from network[194.125.148.76/ts03-066.dublin.indigo.ie]); 29 Jan 1998 13:10:21 -0000 Received: from ts03-066.dublin.indigo.ie (HELO nt?dublin) (194.125.148.76) by relay03.indigo.ie (qp 28949) with SMTP; 29 Jan 1998 13:10:21 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980129130906.00937710@pop.indigo.ie> X-Sender: relyod@pop.indigo.ie X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:09:06 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Doyle Subject: Configuration Question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I have set a PC up as a mail server for my company. Setup: * It allows users to connect via Eudora (using the "popper" server) and send and recieve mail. * It connects to the ISP by "dial on demand" user level PPP, with a script "ondemand" in ppp.conf , invoked in rc.local with the command line "ppp -auto ondemand" The "glitch" I'm seeing is that any time a user tries to connect, (or I try to telnet) to the server in question, it dials out if the connection is down. I.E. it seems to dial the ISP not only when there's outbound traffic, but also any time there's traffic on the local link (the ethernet card) Any suggestions regarding what I might have configured wrong? If anyone wants to help, I would send the detailed configuration files to them, rather than clog up the mailing list with the files. :-) Mike <><=======================================><> Michael Doyle Home: 280 3042 Network Administrator Work: 661 0588 Co-Operation North relyod@indigo.ie