From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 20: 0: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.svr.pol.co.uk (mail11.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE85C37B878 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from merlin@a470.com) Received: from [195.92.67.23] (helo=mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) by mail11.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12p0FT-00012T-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 May 2000 03:59:51 +0100 Received: from modem-104.harlequin-basslet.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.25.104] helo=A470.com) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12p0FS-0003UC-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 09 May 2000 03:59:51 +0100 Received: (qmail 27832 invoked by uid 1000); 9 May 2000 01:47:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 01:47:36 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp 'set filter' question Message-ID: <20000509014736.E21948@netlink.co.uk> References: <20000508215244.K13317@netlink.co.uk> <39174057.FFB18636@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <39174057.FFB18636@3-cities.com> Organization: A470 X-No-Archive: yes X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart : > Personally, I setup user-ppp to auto start in the background, nat, and > demand dial. I currently have a runppp.sh in .../rc.d. I usually ping I don't have an 'rc.d' (though I had an /etc/rc.d/ with Linux). I suppose I should be putting any file to put ppp in the background (as per your suggestion above) in /etc/rc.conf ? > my ISP and it dials. I use an alias to > ping -n 10 -w 10000 my.isp.com. > > Unless there is a problem of some sort, I start getting a response on > the 3rd ping. If it times out completely, something is going on and I > go down to my gateway computer with the modem to see and hear what is > happening. I use user-ppp because it is easy to drop, dial, and quit > all using pppctl. Ah, but what filters do you use in your ppp.conf file ? Your ping above makes user-ppp dial out (because it's in demand dial / auto mode). But what do you use to stop any other traffic to the 'outside' causing a dial out ? Thanks for your help ! Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message