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John Schmerold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Eventually, RH will connect to Internet, but it requires 5 to 10
> minutes of hitting refresh page to get it to come up at the client's
> desk.
Isn't this more of a PPP question? You might get better answers on a
PPP mailing list.
> We are using following files:
> File options
> lock
> crtscts
> defaultroute
> noauth
> noipdefault
> modem
> /dev/modem
> 115200
> idle 300
> demand
> debug
> ipcp-accept-local
> ipcp-accept-remote
> persist
> holdoff 120
> asyncmap 0
> name "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> mtu 1500
Where is the specification of the PPP interface's IP address? You can't
configure an interface without an IP, and you can't route traffic to an
interface that's not configured, so you can't have pppd detect that
there is traffic attempting to route to the internet, to auto-dial PPP.
See the catch-22 situation? I'm surprised that this connection comes
up, ever! There must be something else bringing up the connection, and
if that's true, you might have some sort of conflicting configuration!
I'd look into that, if I were you.
At any rate, you need to remove the "noipdefault" option, and replace it
with a fake IP address for the local/remote sides of the link. Since
you have the ipcp-accept-{local,remote} options specified, as well as
the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr flag set, you won't have any problems
with the IP address changing after the link comes up.
I suggest using a pair of IP addresses that are not on your subnet
anywhere, such as "192.168.99.99:192.168.100.100". That should allow
the connection to be initially configured when you start pppd, and thus
traffic will be routeable, etc. etc.
You really should check your daemon logs; they would have told you what
was wrong.
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