---Derek Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I now have dial on demand and ip masq working
(thanks for the help) but
> now a couple of questions:
>
> 1) How do I set the time-out on the diald?
>
> 2) Can I set my ip masq'ing machine up as a
caching DNS and will that
> speed it up?
I did it, and it works, just follow the instructions
on the DNS howto, and that�s all.
>
> 3) How can I tell if it is connected without
trying to ping a machine
> on the internet because of course that makes it
dial out and get
> connected?
You can see if the interface is active using
ifconfig, if the ppp interface appears you�re
connected, anothe way is usinf tcpdump -i ppp0 and
looking if traffic appears.
>
> 4)I put all the masq'ing stuff in my rc.local
because I thought that
> would make it start up at boot time but it does not
so I wrote a script
> to do it but I have to log in as root after reboot
and run that script.
> How do I make it run the stuff I need at boot time?
Maybe you�re using the wrong file, some distributions
use different files at boot time, you can look for
common boot up scripts and check if those really
executes at boot time.
>
> Thanks for the help!
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