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From: "Alex Mondale" <alex@mondale.com>
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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:25:56 +0000
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Subject: getting ppp to "alias demand dial"
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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