Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 10:16:18 +0900 (JST) From: Atsushi MURAI <amurai@spec.co.jp> To: NETMGR02@CBE.AB.CA (Glen Larwill Network Programmer Analyst) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Slip or PPP dial on demand? Message-ID: <199501300116.KAA17289@specgw.spec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9501291727.A557937525-0100000@CBE.AB.CA> from "Glen Larwill, Network Programmer Analyst" at Jan 29, 95 05:34:46 pm
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> I've been using a FreeBSD machine to connect to my employers Slip and PPP > lines for a while now. Everything works great. I was wondering if there > are any plans for adding dial-on-demand capabilities to slattach or pppd > (or where ever it would have to be added) in the near future? If you are running with FreeBSD 1.x, you can use a "iijppp" for dial-on-demand.(ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/network/iij-ppp/iij-ppp0.93. tar.gz). And for FreeBSD 2.x users, We've already port them and we will/would like to put on -current tree soon. -----------------------------README----------------------------------------- README for User Process PPP For Version 0.93 package Oct. 15th 1994 Toshiharu OHNO tony-o@iij.ad.jp INTRODUCTION This is user process PPP software package. Normally, PPP is implemented as a part of kernel and hard to debug and/or modify its behavior. However, in this implementation, PPP is implemented as a user process with the help of tunnel device driver. Major Features o Runs under BSDI-1.1 and FreeBSD-1.1. Patch for NeXTSTEP 3.2 is also available on the net. o Provide interactive user interface. Using its command mode, user can easily enter commands to establish the connection with the peer, check the status of connection, and close the connection. o Supports both of manual and automatic dialing. Interactive mode has ``term'' command which enables you to talk to your modem directory. When your modem is connected to the peer, and it starts to speak PPP, PPP software detects it and turns into packet mode automatically. Once you have convinced how to connect with the peer, you can write chat script to define necessary dialing and login procedure for later convenience. o Supports on-demand dialup capability. By using auto mode, PPP program will act as a daemon and wait for the packet send to the peer. Once packet is found, daemon automatically dials and establish the connection. o Supports idle timer capability. If no packet activity is found certain amount of time, PPP automatically close the connection to save connection fee. Line monitoring function is available, too. PPP can automatically checks whether if peer is alive (by sending LQR or LCP echo), and if there is no response from the peer, PPP determines that peer has dead and close the connection. o Can act as server which accept incoming PPP connection. o Supports PAP and CHAP authentification. o Supports packet filtering. User can define three kinds of filters; ifilter for incoming packet, ofilter for outgoing packet and dfilter to define dialing trigger packet. o Tunnel driver supports bpf. That is, user can use tcpdump to check packet flow over the PPP link. o Supports PPP over TCP capability. o Supports IETF draft Predictor-1 compression. --------------------------------End of Readme------------------------------ Atsushi. -- Atsushi Murai Email : amurai@spec.co.jp SPEC Voice : +81-3-3833-5341 System Planning and Engineering Corp.
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