Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-30 Thread Patrick L. McGillan
@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 7:38 AM Subject: pon - When am I connected? ifconfig will show a connection to ppp0 when the connection is established. You could write a script that runs ifconfig every second or so using grep to look for 'ppp0' and report when

Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-30 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Maybe it is not the best way, but I have the following command in my ip-up script. wall PPP is UP ZORO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-30 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:01:32PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Maybe it is not the best way, but I have the following command in my ip-up script. wall PPP is UP Better make thatecho PPP is UP | wall -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz

Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-29 Thread Norbert Veber
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 03:47:46PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: As root I do pon whatever and 3 seconds or later it is connected. However, I cannot tell when except by trying it until it works. How do I tell when a connection has been negotiated? And how can I tell if it has failed? Using PAP

Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ian Lynagh wrote: As root I do pon whatever and 3 seconds or later it is connected. However, I cannot tell when except by trying it until it works. How do I tell when a connection has been negotiated? And how can I tell if it has failed? Using PAP for the moment, in case it matters. Also,

pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-29 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
ifconfig will show a connection to ppp0 when the connection is established. You could write a script that runs ifconfig every second or so using grep to look for 'ppp0' and report when the link is up, then stop itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

pon: When am I connected

1998-05-29 Thread Ashok Gopalakrishnan
Linux Journal June 98 has an article on a user interface for starting and stopping PPP connections. The entire article is on line as also the scripts that you need to set up your system. The author has described his Slackware configuration (3.4, I think). It was not that difficult to set it up

RE: Pon - when am i connected?

1998-05-29 Thread tony mollica
You can use the ip-up and ip-down scripts located in /etc/ppp. The ip-up script is run when a ppp connection is successfully made. Parameters are passed to this script that can be used to echo the connection data wherever you want (tty, ttyp0, etc). You can use ip-down script to display a

pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
As root I do pon whatever and 3 seconds or later it is connected. However, I cannot tell when except by trying it until it works. How do I tell when a connection has been negotiated? And how can I tell if it has failed? Using PAP for the moment, in case it matters. Also, is there any way I can

Re: pon - When am I connected?

1998-05-28 Thread aqy6633
As root I do pon whatever and 3 seconds or later it is connected. However, I cannot tell when except by trying it until it works. How do I tell when a connection has been negotiated? And how can I tell if it has failed? Using PAP for the moment, in case it matters. plog Alex Y. -- _