From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 22:10:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA20168 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p3-6.intele.net [204.118.149.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA20163 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA02873; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:10:58 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:10:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199602100710.XAA02873@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Nate Williams CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Several misc. questions on user mode PPP In-Reply-To: <199602091547.IAA12567@rocky.sri.MT.net> References: <27134221@toto.iv> <199602090735.XAA01642@obie.softweyr.com> <199602091547.IAA12567@rocky.sri.MT.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Recently, I blathered: > 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 Nate Williams pointed out: % Except that the link won't start w/out a packet going to the remote % site. Oops. Right. Add 'ping -i 10 -c 1 intele.net' (or, obviously, some machine outside your network but close to your PPP router) after the 'ppp -auto' command. This ping will exit as soon as it receives an ECHO_RESPONSE packet. -- 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