From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 14 14:29:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA16015 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16010 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA29159; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:31:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need help setting up user ppp and dial-on demand Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First of all, sorry for sending this to three lists, but I got no response the first time to just questions. Please delete all but the appropriate list, or just reply directly to me. Basically, I have a small lan in my house, and I'm converting from Linux over to FreeBSD (2.1R). I have a static IP address from my provider, and wanted to set up on-demand PPP so my wife can get on the net any time without having to start anything herself. The problem seems to be that the system insists on having the PPP link up before it will allow any traffic. Even "telnet 127.0.0.1" blocks until the PPP link is established. My first attempt followed the examples in the /etc/ppp directory. This resulted in the behavior above. After trying with no success to tweek that configuration (the closest I got was that it would work normally until the first time it connected), I went by the configuration in the handbook. After tweeking the second configuration for a while I got to the point where no traffic was blocking, but it would bring up the link for no apparent reason. So, I started blocking services for dialing, and when I blocked everything I thought could be happening, it still dialed. So I blocked everything, and it still dialed. I suspect my filters aren't set up properly :-) Anyway, is anyone successfully using dial-on-demand PPP on a machine also attached to a local network?