> Hey there, > > I haven't seen any posts about this yet, so I thought I'd throw out a > quick work around idea. How about setting the DEMAND option in the file as > the norm. Then in your rc.local file, you could issue an ifup ppp0 command. > This would offer the ONBOOT functionality, without running into the previous > snag. Hope this helps. > > Jeff Hogg
It gets better Jeff. I actually had that same idea, and works on a customer's server which I set up a week ago (which had the same problem). FOR SOME REASON, IT DOES NOT work on our server here. When I do that, it locks up again and I get no log-in screen. Ctrl-Alt-Delete works, so it's definitely 'waiting' for something. > > P.S. Just from curiosity, is there any particular reason to have it > activate at boot time, rather than just as you need it after the boot time, > via the demand option? See, this is where I'm going to have to have something explained to me (the man page for on-demand ppp is pretty useless, and I can't see anything on the LDP that tells me how to set it up with this RedHat box). If I turn on-boot off, and demand on as you said, pppd will not start up at all at start-up. Hence, when the internet packets start flying, I get no attempt to do anything from pppd, as the interface is not being 'watched' so to speak. With on-boot on, pppd starts up and waits for internet packets to start flying, which is what I expect. However, in RH 6.2 it would continue booting even if the initial link was not brought up (again, expected behaviour - demand implies only start the link when there are packets flying). It SEEMS in 7.2 it fires up ppp in demand mode, then WAITS INDEFINATELY for the link to come up for some reason. However, with no activity at all from clients or the server itself, this will never happen, hence the lock. >From what you're saying it seems to me that if I run on-boot off and demand on, pppd should still load, just not attempt to bring up the link? Then why isn't it? BUGGER! Any ideas on what I'm missing? Regards, Ed. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
