Hi Keith, I have not tried out netscape on demand dialing as I seem to still have a bug in my Xwindows setup ever since I upgraded to Redhat 6.0. I am still in the process of setting up IP Masquerade on my machine so you are ahead of me there. However, try the accept-remote and accept-local options as I have given in my reply to Gardo and let me know how it works out. If you still have a problem try restarting named (DNS) on your linux box after the connection comes up by putting ndc restart in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ip-up file. I still have a problem with the initial connection taking quite a while to time-out (8 minutes) despite giving an Idle of 30 seconds. My /var/log/messages show quite a lot of bytes went back and forth without me touching the keyboard. Do you know how one could fix that. Do you think I need some type of filter like with diald. My machine is not on a LAN. Regards Rajiv At 06:22 PM 8/24/99 -0500, you wrote: >I had picked up another message that gave the same indication that doing >demand dialing with pppd is almost as easy as adding the one word to the >options file. Then I found your message (in the diald mailing list). >So I tried it and it works almost like you indicated. > >I have RH 6.0 with the standard pppd (that came with the 6.0). In my >case, I have a regular dial-up line where my ISP gives me a dynamic IP >address. Just putting 'demand' in the options file got me an error >message that indicated that I had to assign the remote peer's IP address >(which would only be known AFTER I dialed up the link). I tried (local >: remote) of 0.0.0.0 : 0.0.0.0, but pppd didn't like that. So I tried >the (known) Linux machine IP : dns IP address for my ISP (192.168.0.1 : >209.30.0.9). That works (sort of) fine, and gets me connected and >surfing.. > >But I am getting the (Win9X) Netscape error (from a IP_Masq'd machine) >saying that the 'server cannot be located'. I am inserting this in my >/etc/rc.d/rc.local file - > ># added to hold off IP requests until the link is up ># comes from /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.5/networking/ip_dynaddr.txt >echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr > >but that doesn't make it hold water and I end up with the 'cannot locate >server'. Of course, if I click 'OK' and try the same url, it connects >fine. I've tried some other things - > >Set the remote IP to the local loop device - couldn't get the modem to >dial. >Set the remote IP to the IP of the ethernet device - didn't work. >Set the remote IP to the IP of the modem device (from above) - still got >the 'no server'. > >Have you gotten this far and/or solved this problem? > >TIA - Keith > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
