From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 02:15:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA27125 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 02:15:39 -0800 Received: from ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (ix-sb1-06.ix.netcom.com [204.32.201.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA27114 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 02:15:28 -0800 Received: from ncc-1701-d (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01145 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:59:57 -0800 Message-ID: <309BAA18.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 09:59:52 -0800 From: Donald Burr X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to get dial-on-demand PPP going? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk When I was running Linux, I had this wonderful little utility that turned my PPP connection into a "dial on demand" PPP. That is to say, I didn't always have to have the pppd online and using my telephone, but rather, when my compuer wanted to do something with the network (say, I ran my Web browser and opened up a url), the computer would say "ahh! someone needs to use the ppp" and would dial the modem and establish the ppp connection all automatically. And, when I was done with it (say, I remained "idle" and did not use any network services for X minutes) the computer would drop my ppp connection, so that it wouldn't eat up telephone charges, on-line fees, etc. when I was not doing anything with it. This was all done by a nifty program called diald. I miss this capability in FreeBSD. None of the FAQs or other documents I could find breathes a word about dial-on-demand PPP, much less ecplains how to do it. I tried porting the diald program over to FreeBSD, but it looks too Linux-specific and thus, difficult for me to port. I use the system-level PPP (ie. the ppp0 interface, and the pppd driver). I DO NOT use the user-level PPP (the one that uses the tun0 tunneling driver). So does anyone know how to set this up in FreeBSD? (I run 2.0.5-RELEASE). I'd love to start receiving netnews with my machine, and so I set up a schedule in CRON to try and fetch news every X hours, but since I only have one phone line, which I have to share with a busy/working roommate, I needless to say, can't keep the phone tied up 24 hours a day. Thanks, Donald -- Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 TEL (805)564-1871 // FAX 564-2315 // WWW http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~dburr PGP Public Key available by request (send e-mail) or Public Key Servers. ** Uphold your right to privacy - Use PGP. **