Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:15:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "noah" <noah@mweb.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial on demand routing with iijppp Message-ID: <199804162315.AAA01596@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:53:35 %2B0200." <199804161348.PAA01476@mweb.co.za>
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> Hi
>
> I am looking for information on dial-on-demand routing using
> user ppp (iijppp), hopefully you are the correct person to ask ;)
> If not delete me and pretend i never asked ...
>
> The situation is thus :
> I require several (at least three) wide area routers that use user ppp
> for connectivity. each router is freebsd 2.2.1 with a SINGLE modem
> and other wan connections. I need to be able to initiate connections in
> both directions ...
>
> It seems fairly simple to do this in one direction ( eg an isp connection)
> but appears much harder on a peer to peer basis. The problem seems to
> lie with the routing. You must use different routes for the same nets
> depending on which router initiates the connection.
> This seems to call for a routing daemon that can handle redundant
> routes but I cant get any to work.
> Does anyone have any ideas as how to get this going?
> Has anyone done anything like this before ?
> Thanks for your help
You could try setting your ppp.conf file up so that the -direct
mode ppp kills the running -auto mode ppp, and then set your
ppp.linkdown so that the -direct mode ppp starts ppp -auto again.
> noah@mweb.co.za
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