Mark Johnson wrote:
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> Q1: Why does my log (below) show "PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)",
> when I have no such version on my machine?
do a "man pppd" and search for "demand"
I did and found this excerp below in a bog standard Slackware 4.0 install
in which pppd 2.3.7 is also distributed with....
demand Initiate the link only on demand, i.e. when data traffic is present.
With this option, the
remote IP address must be specified by the user on the command
line or in an options file.
Pppd will initially configure the interface and enable it for IP
traffic without connecting
to the peer. When traffic is available, pppd will connect to the
peer and perform negotia-
tion, authentication, etc. When this is completed, pppd will
commence passing data packets
(i.e., IP packets) across the link.
The demand option implies the persist option. If this behaviour is
not desired, use the nop-
ersist option after the demand option. The idle and holdoff
options are also useful in con-
juction with the demand option.
It appears that "dial-on-demand" is a feature of pppd 2.3.(something)+
I must admit I never looked for it before!!!!!
Shane();
3:38pm up 3 days, 6:09, 13 users, load average: 0.31, 0.23, 0.18
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