Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:27:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IJPPP dial on demand Message-ID: <19971010092718.00781@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710091126.UAA07708@holly.rd.net>; from Daniel J. O'Connor on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 08:56:18PM %2B0930 References: <199710091126.UAA07708@holly.rd.net>
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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 08:56:18PM +0930, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote:
> Hi,
> I have IJPPP to do dial on demand(and it actually works! :), but the problem is
> that the event to cause a dialup(ie a telnet being run or whatever) gets
> munched.
> By that I mean that if I am not dialed up and do 'telnet foo.bar', I will
> have to kill it and wait for the dial up to finish happening and try it again,
> otherwise it will time out.
I'm not really sure what you're saying here. Are you saying:
1. You're not connected, and you issue a telnet command.
2. PPP starts to dial, but it doesn't connect, and you have to kill
it.
Or are you saying:
1. You have an idle telnet connection, and the line isn't connected.
2. You enter something, which causes PPP to dial, but you don't get a
TCP-level connection.
The second scenario is typical for dynamic addressing. The first I
don't understand, but it might not be the case.
> It might be because after a dial up succeeds, my IP changes(dynamic IP
> assignment ): so the packets go to the wrong place..
> Does anyone know of a way to fix it?
If it's (2), the answer is "get a static address".
> Also, would it be possible to allow the dial command to be used from the ppp
> command prompt? This would allow some very handy stuff to happen..
> (I tried, but got also sorts of weird problems happening)
Can't you do this from telnet to port 3000? But I can't see why you
would want to.
Greg
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