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To: Sren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: bidirectional PPP possible ?? 
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> 
> I have a problem...
> 
> I want to have my PPP connection to my ISP demand dialed both ways, 
> ie the one who has some packets to deliver opens the line.
> 
> I have it sortof running by using a ppp -auto as my demand dialer,
> and having a ppp hanging off a ppp aware getty on the same modem.
> 
> The problem is that the -auto ppp set a default route, which
> points to tun0, now when a call comes in its answered and the ppp
> comes up on tun1 which should now be the default, and as expected
> this doesn't work :(
> If I kill the ppp -auto when the call comes in, it works, but
> I cannot get it to start a new one on exit, so I'm lost again...
> 
> I have fixed IP# in both ends (which I can control), and I need
> to route my little network over the line.
> 
> Any ideas ?? sombody have this working ??

How about a ppp.linkup that does a

my-in-label:
 ! sh -c "kill `cat /var/run/tun?.pid`"
 delete ALL
 add 0 0 HISADDR

(or something) and a dialin .profile that says

ppp -direct my-in-label
exec ppp -auto my-out-label

> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> ..

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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