From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 18:56:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA01340 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01335 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA10698; Sun, 25 May 1997 01:56:44 GMT Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 18:56:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Ian Wynne cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp auto mode In-Reply-To: <199705240443.VAA06119@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 May 1997, Ian Wynne wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.6R. My question is with iijppp ppp, ie user mode ppp. > > When I envoke ppp in the "-auto" mode, where is supposed to dial out when it > detects a packet on the out going interface, it only seems to dial when there > is an out going UDP packet such as a routed packet. Telnet and ping don't seem > to initiate dialling. I have no problems with ijppp -auto on my home system. It's at 2.2-R right now but was 2.1.5 and worked fine there too. Without digging into the source I'd allow that you may be right since most connections start with a named request which is UDP. Are you running your own name server? Bad idea on a dialup unless you *really* know what you are doing. (not a slam, just a comment) If you are running your own server, remove any entries for off-site machines from the zone files. Any other symptoms? Lots of people use ijppp with no problems. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82