From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 4:53: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin6.bigpond.com (juicer03.bigpond.com [139.134.6.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1B937B621 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dyoung6@bigpond.net.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.54]) by mailin6.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GBYXMI00.F7C; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:27:54 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-141-84.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.141.84]) by mail6.bigpond.com (Claudes-Revolutionary-MailRouter V2.9c 11/3647991); 18 Apr 2001 13:22:39 Message-ID: <044501c0c7b6$d5e98480$548d093d@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Alvin Sim" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <395951968.20010418112232@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: stop ppp dialing on boot Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:22:44 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd start by commenting out those last four lines ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvin Sim" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: stop ppp dialing on boot > Hello list, > > i have been searching around for a way to stop ppp from dialing when > the machine boots up but so far, i cannot say that i have found an > answer. hopefully someone here can help me out :) > > i have a very simple lan comprising of a fbsd server (4.3-rc) that > serves as a gateway to 2 other machines running ntws and 98. ppp is > configured and i can dial 'ppp -auto provider' w/ no problems from a > ssh session from nt (telnet is disabled). now, this seems very > unconventional that i have to make a ssh session everytime i want to > connect to my isp. furthermore, the person behind the machine running > 98 has zero knowledge of doing anything of that sort (i.e. telnet, > ssh... ) > > ok, so i set up ppp to dial when there's a connection going out of my > lan when the system boots up. but... somehow, it dials everytime it > boots up instead of when it detects an outbound connection from my > lan. and i dont want that (dialing upon booting up) since i'm > charged on a per-minute dialup basis. anyways, i'm including part my > rc.conf config if someone can have a look at it and tell me where i > did wrong. > > start my rc.conf > =========================================================== > > # > ### Basic network: ### > network_interfaces="lo0 rl0" > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" > ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > hostname="my.domain.org" > > # > ### Network routing options: ### > gateway_enable="YES" > router_enable="NO" > defaultrouter="NO" > forward_sourceroute="NO" > accept_sourceroute="NO" > tcp_drop_synfin="NO" # Set to YES to drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN > tcp_restrict_rst="NO" # Set to YES to restrict emission of RST > > firewall_enable="YES" > firewall_type="open" > firewall_quite="YES" > natd_enable="YES" > natd_interface="tun0" > natd_flags="-dynamic" > > # > # User ppp configuration. > ppp_enable="YES" > ppp_mode="auto" > ppp_nat="NO" > ppp_profile="provider" > > =========================================================== > end my rc.conf > > > if ppp_enable="NO", i then have to manually dial. if ppp_enable="YES", > it dials on booting up :( so, how can i make it dial ONLY when it > detects an outbound traffic? thanks for looking into this. > > > -- > Alvin mailto:bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message