I am using eql-1.2.tar.gz. I forget where I got this from, its been awhile.
I am pretty sure it is refrence to the eql.txt file that came with RH or I
went to RH support site and found the EQL HOWTO which told me where to
download it from.
The only way I can get everything automated is using nested if statements in
my ip-up script.
This is my ip-up script:
if (/sbin/ifconfig |grep -q ppp0); then
if (/sbin/ifconfig |grep -q ppp1)
eql_enslave eql ppp0 115200
eql_enslave eql ppp1 115200
/sbin/route add default ppp0
fi
fi
Notice I have a default route setup to ppp0. Well the Eql HOWTO states that
you should setup a default route to eql. If I setup the default route to
eql, then I can't ping,ftp,etc... when it is automated thru my ip-up script.
If I manually initiate all connections then slave each device and setup the
default route manually, everything is fine.
Automated, no go with /sbin/route add default eql. Only works with
/sbin/route add default ppp0 or ppp1. But the load balancing is something
like 80% - 20%.
I have been fighting this for about 6 months now!! That is why I waited so
long before I put it in production. I guess I have to put up with it until
my fibre connection comes in.
Oh well I learned Linux ppp the hard way!! By the seat of my pants and
breaking thru walls :-) Got through it and still will use linux, what a
great OS!!!! There is so much youcan do with it.:-)
>From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Marc Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: ppp and EQL
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:38:00 -0500 (CDT)
>
>On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Marc Dufresne wrote:
>
>|RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.15 and ppp-2.3.11
>|
>|I want to connect 2 modems using ppp and eql. I have everything automated
>|except for slaving my 2 modems when both links come up. If I do everything
>|manually, it works great.
>
>Interesting. Are you using the original EQL code for a Livingston
>Portmaster 2E as documentated in the kernel sources eql.txt? If not
>then would you mind posting any URLs related to the EQL you have
>working?
>
>|Manual connection exapmle:
>|Scripts are executed in the following order
>|
>|/etc/ppp/ppp-onR0
>|/etc/ppp/ppp-onR1
>|slavetty
>|
>|Everything works Great !!
>|
>|Problem with automation:
>|
>|What happens is if I put a file called slavetty into my ip-up script, it
>|runs the script(slavetty) before the 2nd modem has established its
>|connection, therefore messing up my routing table(won't allow me to
>|ping,etc...).
>
>Consider using the pppd option ipparam to mark the second pppd via
>the $6 parameter in ip-up, and run slavetty only when that pppd comes
>up for IP.
>
>I think that will work, but no guarantee.
>
>---
>Clifford Kite Not a guru.
>(tm)
>
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