Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:47:02 -0700 From: rduvall@onlinehighways.net <rduvall@onlinehighways.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp shell command and MYADDR Message-ID: <E1A6zfe-0003BI-00@mail.ohwy.com>
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I fixed the problem...
It seems that I cannot specify my shell command within ppp.conf, I have to use a
ppp.linkup file and specify from within there. It works correctly now.
Sincerely,
Rick Duvall
--- rduvall@onlinehighways.net <rduvall@onlinehighways.net> wrote:
> I have configured ppp to bring up my ADSL connection (PPPoA) on Qwest MSN. It
> works great! However, for personal reasons which I won't mention here, I
would
> like ppp to write the dynamic IP address that was assigned to me to a file
> called test.txt. As you can see by the config below, this *should* work via
> the
> shell command in ppp.conf, which executes ipaddr.sh and sends MYADDR to the
> script. However, when the script executes, it writes 10.0.0.2 to the file
> instead of the IP assigned.
>
> How do I get it to write the address assigned?
>
>
> Here is my entry in ppp.conf
>
> adsl:
> set authname xxxxxxxx
> set authkey xxxxxx
> set device !"/usr/local/sbin/pppoa2 -vpi 0 -vci 32"
> accept chap pap
> set speed sync
> set timeout 0
> enable lqr
> set lqrperiod 5
> set redial 15 10000
> set dial ""
> set ifaddr 10.0.0.2/0 10.0.0.1/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
> add default HISADDR
> shell /etc/ppp/ipaddr.sh MYADDR
>
> Here is the shell script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> MYADDR=$1
> echo ${MYADDR} > /etc/ppp/test.txt
> exit;
>
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