Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:25:56 +0000 From: "Alex Mondale" <alex@mondale.com> To: stevenr362@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: getting ppp to "alias demand dial" Message-ID: <199706090250.WAA10383@cais.cais.com>
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Hi Steve, It turned out I did have older ppp binaries (2.2-RELEASE) that didn't have the alias enable yes line available in the ppp.conf. I am not an old hand at setting up bind services, so have been working through some problems with the name server. For some reason it isn't reading out of the /etc/hosts file any more when bind is running. The main difficulty at present seems to be that although demand dialing works, it will only dial if I ping the "gateway" machine that is on my ISP's side; pinging other sites on the net result in "no route to host". Also, the second dialup often seems to result in a link being established, but no packets getting "gatewayed" out to the net. I have to telnet in to the pppd on port 3000, stop the service (or kill -9) and then manually restart it. This is so far resulting in a lot of excess connect time, so I may go back to dialing manually until som refinements are made in the ppp software. Maybe the best idea is to use NAT, a lot of people suggest that, although it seems sort of redundant if I can get ppp -alias to work. Thanks for the snippets from your .conf and .boot files! I now have the 3.0 SNAP from 5/27 running and like the rc.conf a lot better than the old illegible sysconfig. Alex
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