From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 11:56:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F5037B71D for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cublai@earthlink.net) Received: from ROMULUS (1Cust75.tnt1.longmont.co.da.uu.net [63.29.61.75]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA14429 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:56:36 -0800 (PST) From: Z Thompson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ppp -auto Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:28:04 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032413060400.12549@ROMULUS> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I set up ppp -auto according to the "Pedantic PPP Primer" and it seems to be working fine. I have a couple of questions though about running it. First, in ppp.conf.sample there is mention of both "allow user x" and "allow users". I'm not sure if I understand the difference between the two. It says you should put "allow user x" in your default section which will allow that user to use ppp. Now, am I correct in assuming that even this line still doesn't allow the user to execute "ppp -auto demand" to start the auto daemon? Will I always need to su and run this command after, say, a reboot to start ppp in auto mode? Second, how can you check the connection speed in auto mode? In fact, how can you check if you're actually connected? I understand that you could fire up a browser, ping something, etc., but this would connect if you weren't already. I have two machines each with a modem on the same line so I'm just wondering how I can make sure one machine isn't connected if I want to connect on the other. (Look at the lights dummy!) Lastly, can you disconnect without killing the ppp -auto process or by simply letting the connection timout? Thanks, Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message