Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No. It uses the pres

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Donald Spoon writes: > > > >-Snip- < > >>It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to > >>start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. > > > > > >No. It uses the presenc

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No. It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program at bootup. W

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Donald Spoon writes: > One thing I have discovered in Debian to get Demand Dialing to work is > the need to change a file name in /etc/ppp/... you have to change > "no_ppp_on_boot" to "ppp_on_boot". Not true. demand dialing will work fine without that. ppp_on_boot just allows pppd to start at bo

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Sigmund Svertingsson wrote: 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 "

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Sean Burlington
Sigmund Svertingsson wrote: 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 "

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I seem to remember if you use DEMAND dialing you shouldn't use PERSIST and vice versa - one or the other only. Seems logical if you think about it.. Personally I use demand with an idle set for 10 minutes so that my ppp is dropped if I don't access the network for 10 minutes at a time.