From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 17:11:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA09795 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p1-13.intele.net [206.29.206.112]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA09786 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA27519; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:12:34 -0600 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:12:34 -0600 Message-Id: <199604210012.SAA27519@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Khetan Gajjar CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP on demand. In-Reply-To: <117574498@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Khetan Gajjar writes: > I have a static IP address (196.7.74.174) and am dialling into my > ISP. The problem is that when I specify ppp -auto chain it starts > dialling for reasons I do not understand (i.e. I do nothing, and it > starts dialling). Sendmail may be part of the cause; if it runs the mail queue and has any outgoing mail, it will force PPP to dial the connection if the default route still exists through the PPP link. This is desirable behavior if you've got sendmail configured closely enough. ;^) Any of several `background' tasks may behave this way. Another culprit is routing daemons like routed and gated. If you're running a single FreeBSD system on a PPP link, or even a simple router between one class C network and one external link, don't use routed or gated. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett