I am guessing that you edited the /etc/ppp/options file. Correct?
I did not know that demand=yes was the correct way, I only use "demand" but I
also use idle 300 to time out after 300 seconds of ino activity. I used
ifdown ppp0 to hangup and close PPP
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 10:51, Bruno Damour wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone succeedeed to have ppp on demand on a dial up connection with
> Mdk 8 ? ppp-watch hangs as soon as i set demand="yes" so that ifup ppp0
> never exits... It worked perfectly in 7.2.
> Any one knowing what happened ?
>
> This is EXTREMELY annoying for me because it keeps me from connecting to my
> computer over tcp-ip when i'm out... which i had get used to.
>
> Is that a bug in the scripts (ifup-ppp), or in ppp-watch or a problem with
> conflicting options ?
>
> What use is ppp-watch anyway (kppp doesnt use it and it works just fine) ?
>
> BTW The network configuration seems very buggy. I couldn't have eth0 up at
> boot time until i sort of used linuxconf, the control center just did
> nothing whatever i tried.
>
> TIA.
