Hi, I am having major problems with pppd. Please help :-(
I use the following commands to allow my palm (tungsten E) to connect to the net via ppp: #masq stuff echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -o eth0 #/dev/pilot is a symlink to /dev/ttyUSB1 /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/pilot 115200 192.168.0.40:192.168.0.42 noauth silent local persist -detach It will not run unless the palm is trying to connect - it spits out the following error if the palm is not trying to connect: Failed to open /dev/pilot: No such device How do I suppress that error so it wait till the palm tries to connect (and the device is created)? Once it is running I cant stop it. Nothing (I mean it) will stop it. I have to restart the computer if I need to use other programs with the palm and worse of all it will not allow the file system to be unmounted because it is always using the /dev/ttyUSB0 file!! It causes fsck to run every boot! How can I set pppd up so that it disconnects and shuts down when the palm does? Can it be set up at boot: to wait on a palm connection but not block the device)? uname -a: Linux paulscomputer 2.4.22-1-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
