Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 23:09:46 -0600 (MDT) From: softweyr@xmissino.com To: Nathaniel Wayne McConathy <nathan@cslab.uky.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: User PPP feature? Message-ID: <199606230509.XAA05980@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <73145129@toto.iv>
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Nathaniel Wayne McConathy writes:
> Reason for problem: My ISP automatically disconnects 2 hours after
> initial logon. Since I dont plan (at the moment at least) to run a
> web server, or carry news it is not a problem. However I would
> like to be able to access my machine from the outside world pretty
> much all of the time. In order to do this I need to setup my
> machine so that each time my ISP logs me off it dials up and
> reconnects, and then mails me a copy of the netstat at one of the
> other machines I have access to.
>
> My solution: Using the user PPP I configured the ppp.conf so that
> it dials and logs onto the remote machine. However in order to
> have all of this run automatically I added a line to the default:
> section of the ppp.conf that said dial <correct label>
>
> My problem: whenever I run the user PPP with this configuration I
> recieve a segmentation fault error.
>
> Could someone confirm, explain, provide a solution to, this error.
First, you'll want to use the auto-dial feature of PPP. Remove the
dial line, and start PPP with:
# ppp -auto <correct label>
instead. Set your timeout to zero; anytime you get disconnected, PPP
will attempt to automatically bring you back on-line.
You should be able to email yourself the new IP address by using a
'shell' command in your ppp.linkup file; run a shell script that mails
the output of ifconfig -a to your known outside address.
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