john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb: > ...After an `apt-get > dist-upgrade` late last week or early this week (possibly Sunday?), > the handling of dial-on-demand PPP appears to have changed.
Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as you describe: > ...giving the pon command would start pppd, but nothing > else would occur until data needed to be sent. The system would then > dial-out... Have you tried causing network traffic to see what happens? If pppd is trying to dial out but failing to negotiate a connection, you may need to enable the `ipcp-accept-local' and `ipcp-accept-remote' options so pppd will accept whatever IPs your ISP assigns. `pon' will still set local & remote IPs initially, but the real connection will override them when it comes up. Set the options by uncommenting them in /etc/ppp/options, or for individual dialup configs by appending them after the pppconfig generated lines in /etc/ppp/peers/provider (or other provider name). I also like to comment out the default `lcp-echo-*' and enable `idle 300' so pppd will automatically drop the physical connection if no data is sent or received for 5 minutes -- your take on this will depend on whether you live in some benighted nation where calls to ISPs cost by the minute. Regards, -- Brett
