Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:35:09 -0800 From: wes@intele.net To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, "Jay L. West" <jlwest@tseinc.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Several misc. questions on user mode PPP Message-ID: <199602090735.XAA01642@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <27134221@toto.iv>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jay L. West queried:
> 2) The link to my provider is started on boot. I'm using 'ppp -auto
> providername' and then 'ping -c 1 ip.address' in /etc/netstart. The ping
> times out before the connection is made, but it forces the startup (timeout
> is 0 in ppp.config). This seems a bit kludgey; is there a more elegant or
> standard way of starting a "dedicated" dialup link at boot time?
Nate Williams replied:
% Not using iijppp. You may want to get my 'ddial' patches to iijppp,
% which cause it to always keep the link up, but they *require* the
% stability patches above because it triggers some of the bugs it fixes.
I think he was just looking for a somewhat more elegant way to
starting the interface, as opposed to editing /etc/netstart, which is
now supposed to be sacrosanct. Try the following:
In /etc/sysconfig, add your "tun0" device to the network_interfaces
list:
network_interfaces="ed0 lo0 tun0"
...
ifconfig_tun0=""
Now create a script called /etc/start_if.tun0 containing, i.e.:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Script to start ppp daemon in autodialer mode.
# Wes Peters, 22 Jan 1996.
#
echo "Starting PPP link to InteleNET on tun0:" > /dev/console
ppp -auto intelenet
This will automagically bring up your interface, without hacking
netstart.
> 3) In /etc/sysconfig, I ifconfig lo0, ed0, and tun0.
% iijPPP auto-configures tun0, so there isn't a need to do that.
Right. If you use the start_if.interface file, make sure the entry
for the interface in sysconfig is set to "".
--
Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder
Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate...
wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602090735.XAA01642>