Hi, At present I have configured our email server to dial out with wvdial. The termination takes place based on timeout in /etc/ppp/options. However this part is not in out control. But if we use chat scripts than we can terminate the ppp connection immediatly after sending and receiving mail. Wvdial in such cases will create problems since if we put say idle 60 in /etc/ppp/options than if the ppp link is idle for 1 minute than pppd will die. But sometimes due to poor net connection there may not be any trasfer to or fr on the ppp link but we still want that link to continue. The danger with setting the idle value higher is that every time pppd will wait that many seconds for termination. So using chat scripts I can control this process. I have created three chat scripts after going through the ppp howto. The scripts work fine. I get the connection but after getting connected nothing is working. nslookup, ping because of the following : when I connect using wvdial route -n gives the following : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 202.54.17.12 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.20.6 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.20.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 202.54.17.12 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I connect using the chat scripts route -n gives the following : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 202.54.17.12 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.20.6 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.20.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you can see that the gateway is not set when using scripts. And it has to be set to the dynamic IP which the ISP server assigns during connection. Due to this though I am connected to net nothing is working. Everywhere I get host not found errors. What should I do to rectify the above ? Thanks for reading this big mail. Hope I have explained my problem properly. Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh Fowkar (Computer Programmer) V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD., PANAJI-GOA Email ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site : http://www.dempos.com ---------------------------------------------- The mailing list archives are available at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
