pppd on demand trouble

[Sigmund Svertingsson]

Greetings, all.

I'm running Woody on an old Pentium box as my gateway/firewall/fileserver for my LAN here at Castillo del Lago (my home). Life is good here, and I'm really enjoying Debian, but I'm kind of stuck with the demand dialing thing.

If I comment out the "demand" and "persist" statements in /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/peers/provider, I can say "pppd call provider" and the modem dials (and I post to the list asking for help). I do get "tdb_store failed: IO Error," but the link comes up fine, and here I am.

If I uncomment "demand" and "persist," when I call pppd and then point the browser of one of my masq'ed machines outside of my LAN, the Woody box just sits there.
Oh, I also have smbd running on the Woody box (shouldn't matter, I would think.)

This is obviously a problem that has been solved, just not by me :-/

I don't know what else to toss out in the way of info for now, but will cheerfully provide more if asked.

Thanks,

Siggy


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