Hi,
I have finally setup dial on demand within ppp. It works fine except
when I start netscape. I have it set to go to a blank page on startup,
but it still insists on triggering the ppp and forcing it to dial as
soon as I hit a button on startup. It then locks up X until it
connects, or I execute ifdown ppp0.
If ppp0 is down, it will work okay. If ppp is up but idle, it will not
even do the blank page (or localhost) without connecting to the
internet.
Based on searching deja, I ran an strace, and it looked like it was
trying to connect to my news server. I couldn't find any solution to
fix this problem. I do use Netscape for news, but I would change if I
had to. I tried to delete my news server, but to no avail, it kept
popping back up as the default news server. I thought that even the
request for localhost might be trigger ppp to dial, but it appears to be
the news server based on strace.
Does anyone no how to solve this? What I would like is:
a: An "offline" mode that exists in WinXXX or
b: What it should do: If I don't request anything outside my network,
it should not dial. It should not be trying to connect to my news
server if I am not reading news.
I have not upgraded to the latest Netscape issued by RedHat (I am doing
that next), but I don't imagine it will fix the problem.
Contents of /etc/ppp/options:
lock
noipdefault
ipcp-accept-remote
ipcp-accept-local
demand
idle 200
I don't no what all of these options do, but I found them on dejanews,
and the worked. I include this, but it now seems to be more of a
Netscape problem.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kirk
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