The option we use here is diald (dialing daemon, I suppose), which does both
those very things. There is a .deb (Debian) package for it, and I imagine
there are .rpm and .tgz packages as well, for the distributions that use
those package management systems.
At 10:52 AM 11/8/99 +1300, Paul Charsley wrote [in part]:
....
>Is it possible to initialize ppp
>automatically when the first outgoing traffic for the link arrives? It would
>also be ideal to be able to shut down the link when there is no traffic for
>a specified time. Is this also possible?
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