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Re: Is there a ppp on demand that executes /etc/ppp/ppp-up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Berry)
Sat Jun 29 23:51:21 1996
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 23:19:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Russell Berry <rberry@magik.albany.net>
To: David Flood <dcflood@u.washington.edu>
cc: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960629160430.21039B-100000@saul7.u.washington.edu>
It's called diald, I believe I got it from sunsite, not real sure about
that though. I tried it some time ago and it worked pretty well,
although I'm not using it now.
---russ
On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, David Flood wrote:
> I have ppp working quite well and maskerading working as well. Now what I
> need is ppp on demand that dials my ISP when I need it to. I've seen and
> tried diald but it tries to execute pppd on its own and I don't want to have
> to go though debugging another way of executing pppd. So is there a way
> to have /etc/ppp/ppp-up executed automaticly (since it now works by hand) and
> then have ppp-off executed after a sufficently inactive period?
>
> Or should I tear into the diald stuff and try to make it just execute ppp-up?
>
>
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