dial on demand

[Sean]

Someone else can probably address this issue with a better understanding.
The most common error I have seen when trying to get this to work is
simply not having permissions set correctly to start the ppp dialing..

For example, the process which tries to start ppp chat script is owned by
a user (or daemon) which doesnt have the proper permissions. It works
when you telnet (or ssh) into your machine because you are logged in as
root which does have the proper permissions to start the ppp chat script..

It seems like you should see something in the logs, whien this happens.

I personally never got ppp working correctly with linux. =)



 On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:

> Would someone kindly enlighten me regarding the best way to enable ppp
> dial on demand for my home network.  I have a RH6.2 'server' box with
> functional ppp.  I can telnet to the box to manually start ppp (from any
> machine on the network) at which point any machine on my network can
> communicate with the internet.  I've been unable to figure out how to
> get the server box to transparently dial voyager by simply launching
> netscape on one of my other machines.  Doesn't seem like this should be
> this confusing.  I can connect to my ISP from the server box (or by
> telnet as above) either by typing 'ifup ppp0' or using symlinks to same
> using the monikers of dialin and hangup.  Firewall rules and ip masq are
> turned on/off in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and ip-down.local respectively.
> 
> I've tried diald but haven't been able to figure it out and have found
> their helps to be very obscure.  Can pppd accomplish this without
> diald?  If so, how.  I've been reading on this subject for some time but
> have found most 'help' documents confusing at best.
> 
> Are there any gotcha's I need to watch out for (ie. ensuring that the
> box dials ISP only with internet bound packets for example)?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike Rambo
> Media & Electronics Specialist
> Lansing School District
> mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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