On 03-May-2001 Edouard Soriano wrote: > I am setting up an automated dial-out PPP connection on a > Linux box to be started when one of the PC at local LAN > would connect any Internet site. > > This means the Default Gateway of the local LAN is that > Linux box. When a local PC will try to reach any Internet > IP box, this PPP connection needs to be initialized > with the Internet provider and has to remain open > until no trafic detected on that PPP channel for a > given period of time. pppd has idle option which closes down link if there is no traffic for specified period of time. > I played with wvdial and works fine. The problem > is that I do not find how to automatically start > wvdial in daemon mode as well as to tell hime to > cancel the PPP connection when NO trafic > condition detected. In my experience the best method to control dial-on demand and ppp is the diald. If you can invest some time to learn about diald it will give you reward for your time. I installed it (in networks like your) many times and it works like a charm. There are some other software for that like mserver and linecontrol, to name only two. http://diald.sourceforge.net/ is the home site for it, IIRC. Bye, Milan -------------------------------------------------- /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -------------------------------------------------- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
