At 22:13 2001.11.17 -0800, Keith Morse wrote: >On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, AD Marshall wrote: > > > It's supposed to be. But, duh, i'll be danged if i've been able to > figure it out so far, even after reading almost all of the man pages, > latest howtos and tutorials. I've only got this one, for redhat 6.2, to > go and i haven't had the nerve to dive into it yet: > http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/linux/HOWTO/AAAfirewall_install_with_ppp_v62.html > >My apologies if my suggestions are out of place as I've only cursorily >followed this thread. When I did Dial on Demand (ppp) my preference was >"diald", a tool I would still recommend. Never had much success in >getting pppd's DOD working properly. Another thought, IIRC ppp support >pre and post connection script support that, I think, was defined in >/etc/ppp/options. Sorry, brain fade comes on pretty quick when the T-1 >gets installed and it just works all the time.
Thanks, but as mentioned in the thread, masochistically or not, for learning purposes, i'd like to do this with ppp only before i try diald. >And lastly a favour? Please have your email client enable word wrap at >72 characters. Generally it is a mail-list etiquette standard and it does >make it more difficult to provide a cogent reply. Thanks. Sorry, but a number of people have requested i turn off word wrap and, in fact, Eudora only has this option, which i've turned on for this message: Word Wrap Icon - If this is on, a carriage return is not required at the end of each line. When the message is sent, the text is automatically "wrapped," meaning that carriage returns are inserted at the end of each line of text, with roughly 76 characters per line. > > >>I can't help much there as I don't use DOD. I did have it working a > > >>time or two though, and it seems like you have to specify some extra > > >>options (in addition to 'demand' and 'idle') in the ifcfg-ppp0 file. > > >>Seems like you've got to give it your ISP's IP addr--I can't remember. > > >>I think you also have to run 'ifup ppp?' to start pppd, so that it can > > >>listen for traffic. Does the PPP-Howto have anything to say about > > >>DOD? > > >> > > >>I never could quite get DOD to do what I wanted because there was > > >>always something bringing the link up when I didn't want it to. I run > > >>named and several other servers on my LAN, including Apache. Quite > > >>often, I or one of my users will load Netscape to look at a local > > >>document, and Netscape tries to connect to its home causing the link > > >>to come up. That kind of thing was always happening, so I disabled > > >>DOD. You might also be interested in diald. I can't remember the > > >>url, but I'm sure it's listed at freshmeat. > > > > > > I found that various things would cause spurious dialups. Microsoft > networking was the worst. I filtered this in the firewall. > > > > > > Windows also wants to check things in DNS periodically, so I added a > caching DNS server to my firewall. This was set up via the DNS-howto as a > caching server. The only change (aside from local names was to add the line > > >" forward only; // check local first, then forward > (won't dial?)" > > >to the options section of the named.conf file. This should resolve the > name locally first, then dial out to resolve it if it is not in the cache. *--------------------------------------------------* AD Marshall, VietInfoComm&Edu [VICE]-8 Consulting Vietnam Information Communications & Education mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: HTTP://ParadoxCafe.Net Cellular: +84 (0)903871313 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
