At 1:49 AM +0700 11/16/01, AD Marshall wrote: >I've been reading your exchange, Ben & Glenn, with great interest >and trying some of what you've suggested in this and earlier mails. > >I'm still a newb', trying to do the same thing, dial-on-demand >(with kill-on-idle) to share my ISP link to my RH7.1 box with one >Win2K and one Win9x workstation. > >I was just wondering if either (or both ;) of you could share some >of your ppp config' files or scripts with me. Backchannel is fine.
My firewall script does most of the work. I am using Shorewall <http://www.shorewall.net/>. > >I've no problems with the MTUs matching, at 1500, between ppp0 and >eth0, so far -- though i'm not really clear on how this causes IP >fragmentation... a digression for me. > >I've already got IP-Masquerading set up to share my modem-link with >my workstations via my RH7.1 box (with the iptables commands now >in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and starting on bootup, thanks to Ben). > >And i've tried Glenn's earlier advice to someone else, re. dial-on- >demand (DOD), ie, adding to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0: > demand=yes > idle=600 >though left unchanged the idle line to "IDLETIMEOUT=600", assuming >it a new version since RH7.1 set that as default. > >But i still have not been able to get D0D to execute. I still have >to use wvdial or kppp instead. You probably need to enable forwarding ("echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"), to allow the outbound packets to trigger the dialer. (Shorewall does this on activation). > >I tried adding onboot=yes to ifcfg-ppp0, but pppd hung on both >"/sbin/service network restart" and later on reboot (after killing >pppd). My pppd is launched by running a small script as part of the SysV initialization. The script below is installed using chkconfig. This starts and stops it automatically as the machine comes up. ># more /etc/rc.d/init.d/ppp #!/bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/ppp -- control ppp daemon # chkconfig: 345 21 96 # description: starts and stops the pppd daemon # PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # DEBUG="debug" case "$1" in start) echo -n "start ppp daemon: " if [ "$2" = "" ]; then DEVICE=ppp0 else DEVICE=$2 fi if [ "$3" = "" ]; then DEBUG="" else DEBUG="debug" fi # # If the ppp0 pid file is present then the program is running. Stop it. if [ -r /var/run/$DEVICE.pid ]; then echo "already running, stop first" exit 1 fi echo -n "DEBUG=" $DEBUG pppd $DEBUG & # echo "done." ;; stop) echo -n "stop ppp daemon: " if [ "$2" = "" ]; then DEVICE=ppp0 else DEVICE=$2 fi # # If the ppp0 pid file is present then the program is running. Stop it. if [ -r /var/run/$DEVICE.pid ]; then kill -INT `cat /var/run/$DEVICE.pid` # # If the kill did not work then there is no process running for this # pid. It may also mean that the lock file will be left. You may wish # to delete the lock file at the same time. if [ ! "$?" = "0" ]; then rm -f /var/run/$DEVICE.pid echo "ERROR: Removed stale pid file" exit 1 fi # # Success. Let pppd clean up its own junk. echo "PPP link to $DEVICE terminated." sleep 10 exit 0 fi # # The ppp process is not running for ppp0 echo "ERROR: PPP link is not active on $DEVICE" exit 1 ;; status) ps -ef | grep pppd | grep -v grep ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ppp {start|stop}." exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 #End of file. -- -- Glenn Henshaw | Ottawa, Canada Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
