OK I have now received too many requests to post sample scripts to the lists to ignore... Please note that these scripts are for a non-PAP connection. A careful reading of these scripts should be reasonably self explanatory! Remember, you start the ppp connection by giving the command ifup pppX (where X is 0, 1, 2 etc). /sbin/ifup is a shell script that uses the interface name to do all its cunning stuff...and you all have this so I have not posted it here. -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Software Inc. Phone: +1-919-547-0012 Fax: +1-919-547-0024 4201 Research Commons Suite 100, 79 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA ---------------/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 'ABORT' 'BUSY' 'ABORT' 'ERROR' 'ABORT' 'NO CARRIER' 'ABORT' 'NO DIALTONE' 'ABORT' 'Invalid Login' 'ABORT' 'Login incorrect' '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATDTyour.isp.phone.number' 'CONNECT' '' 'ogin:' 'username' 'ord:' 'password' 'TIMEOUT' '5' '~--' '' ---------------/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 PERSIST=no DEFROUTE=yes ONBOOT=no INITSTRING=ATZ MODEMPORT=/dev/modem LINESPEED=115200 ESCAPECHARS=no DEFABORT=yes HARDFLOWCTL=yes DEVICE=ppp0 PPPOPTIONS= DEBUG=yes PAPNAME= REMIP= IPADDR= BOOTPROTO=none MTU= MRU= DISCONNECTTIMEOUT= RETRYTIMEOUT= USERCTL=no ---------------/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin # ifup-post for PPP is handled through /etc/ppp/ip-up if [ "$1" != daemon ] ; then # disconnect stdin, out, err to disassociate from controlling tty # so that no HUPs will get through. $0 daemon $*& </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null exit 0 fi shift CONFIG=$1 . network-functions source_config if [ -z "$DISCONNECTTIMEOUT" ]; then DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=2 fi if [ -z "$RETRYTIMEOUT" ]; then RETRYTIMEOUT=30 fi if [ "$2" = "boot" -a "${ONBOOT}" = "no" ]; then exit fi [ -x /usr/sbin/pppd ] || { echo "/usr/sbin/pppd does not exist or is not executable" echo "ifup-ppp for $DEVICE exiting" logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ "/usr/sbin/pppd does not exist or is not executable for $DEVICE" exit 1 } [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVICE ] || { echo "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVICE does not exist" echo "ifup-ppp for $DEVICE exiting" logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVICE does not exist for $DEVICE" exit 1 } opts="lock" if [ "${HARDFLOWCTL}" = yes ] ; then opts="$opts modem crtscts" fi if [ "${ESCAPECHARS}" = yes ] ; then opts="$opts asyncmap 00000000" fi if [ "${DEFROUTE}" = yes ] ; then opts="$opts defaultroute" fi if [ -n "${MRU}" ] ; then opts="$opts mru ${MRU}" fi if [ -n "${MTU}" ] ; then opts="$opts mtu ${MTU}" fi if [ -n "${IPADDR}${REMIP}" ] ; then # if either IP address is set, the following will work. opts="$opts ${IPADDR}:${REMIP}" fi if [ -n "${PAPNAME}" ] ; then opts="$opts name ${PAPNAME}" fi if [ "${DEBUG}" = yes ] ; then opts="$opts debug" chatdbg="-v" fi CHATSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVNAME [ -f $CHATSCRIPT ] || { CHATSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$PARENTDEVNAME } while : ; do (logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ "pppd started for $DEVICE on $MODEMPORT at $LINESPEED" &)& > /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev /usr/sbin/pppd -detach $opts $MODEMPORT $LINESPEED \ remotename $DEVICE ipparam $DEVICE \ ${PPPOPTIONS} \ connect "/usr/sbin/chat $chatdbg -f $CHATSCRIPT" # exit if we're not supposed to persist or our lock file has disappeared if [ "$PERSIST" != "yes" -o ! -f /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev ]; then rm -f /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev exit 0 fi size=`wc -c < /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev` if [ $size = 0 ]; then # pppd never connected timeout=$RETRYTIMEOUT else # pppd connected and then disconnected timeout=$DISCONNECTTIMEOUT fi [ -z "$timeout" ] && { timeout=30 } sleep $timeout || { # sleep was killed rm -f /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev exit 0 } # exit if our lock file disappeared while we slept if [ ! -f /var/run/ppp-$DEVICE.dev ]; then exit 0 fi done -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.