Davy Leon wrote:
> I have a question. Every time I dialup to the internet pppd executes an
> script called ip-up. My question is, everytime someone dials in it's
> executed too?
Yes. It's executed every time an IP interface is brought up by PPP.
Note that PPP itself knows nothing about dialing in or out; those are
attributes of the lower layer -- the chat script and modems or other
communications gear involved. PPP is symmetric and peer-to-peer.
There's no "client" or "server."
> If the answer is yes, how can I handle the script to
> execute one part when dianing out and another part when dialing in. I
> meant something like
The man page has a number of environment variables documented that you
could use for this task. $PEERNAME is fairly useful -- it will be set
only if you have an authenticated peer name.
If you have different devices for dialing in and out (it's often a good
idea to do this, but not always done), then $DEVICE might tell you what
you want to know.
If you want to get fancier, you can use $LINKNAME with the "linkname"
option.
The simple answer would be:
if [[ -n ${PEERNAME:+I_am_server} ]]; then
# the peer probably called me
else
# I'm probably dialing out
fi
But note that this is making a big assumption about authentication
configuration: that you always authenticate people calling you, and you
never authenticate people you call. That's how PPP is commonly used,
but there's nothing in the standards that _requires_ it to be used that way.
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James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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