>Why are you rewriting ip-up and ip-down? The standard Debian ip-up and
Honestly?
I didn't read the man pages, and it seemed logical at the time :)
Frederic Breitwieser
Bridgeport, CT 06606
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Martin Bialasinski writes:
> There is also another problem. When ppp is updated, it will update poff,
> and all changes would be lost.
I thought it was fairly obvious that one would need to take measures to
deal with this. The simplest is to just put the edited poff in
/usr/local/bin. You could
>> "j" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> Just edit poff. It's a pretty simple script. The problem with this
j> is that poff isn't the only thing that can cause pppd to take down
j> the connection.
There is also another problem. When ppp is updated, it will update
poff, and all changes wou
Jim Foltz writes:
> You could have poff call some program and waits for it to exit before it
> takes the link down. I think this technique is called a wrapper. So you
> move poff to poff.real and create a new poff that tells your service you
> are going offline, then calls poff.real
Just edit poff
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:11:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Martin Bialasinski writes:
> > When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to
> > make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the
> > dynip service to tell them I am going offline"
Martin Bialasinski writes:
> When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to
> make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like "contact the
> dynip service to tell them I am going offline" doesn't work.
A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run "ip-abou
>> "j" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> #!/bin/bash
j> dynipclient -k
j> ...
j> ...
j> and put a similar script in ip-up.d.
Just a thought: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so
there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some
programm like "contact the d
Frederic Breitwieser writes:
> In the ip-up and up-down scripts, I had to switch directories in order
> for the program to see its config file in the same directory - it doesn't
> use any path or environment variables !
This documented in the pppd man page. It is done for security reasons.
The st
>How do you know? These scripts are run with stdout directed to /dev/null,
>so you won't see any output.
I was able to determine this by having another PC, running windows,
connected to the internet not being able to ping the resolved name. I had
originally though, since I can't ping the box, an
>May I ask what dynipclient does? I'm setting up a tiny network at home and
>am going to network a Linux box (running slink) with a Windows 95 machine
>(my son's) and I get a dynamic IP address from my ISP. I use a PPP
>connection.
head over to www.dynip.com, they give a better explaination than
May I ask what dynipclient does? I'm setting up a tiny network at home and
am going to network a Linux box (running slink) with a Windows 95 machine
(my son's) and I get a dynamic IP address from my ISP. I use a PPP
connection.
David Natkins
email: [EMAIL PROTECTE
> In the ip-up file, I need to execute:
> /usr/local/bin/dynipclient -p
> In the ip-down file, I need to execute
> /usr/local/bin/dynipclient -k
> When I add the lines, it doesn't work.
How do you know? These scripts are run with stdout directed to /dev/null,
so you won't see any
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