[Gllug] pppd demand dial help

[Brent Geach]

Ta for pon script.
nodefaultroute didnt make any difference

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003, David Pashley wrote:

> Brent Geach said, and I quote:
> > There is only 1 config that I need that connects to a central point from which
> > vaious vpn's link me to the various geographical sites.
> > So I'll just have to put in various routes to the effect of if it needs to see
> > 1 of several ip ranges then dont go via default gw but via the pppd connection
> > 
> > What I have at the moment I have this
> > 
> > noauth
> > connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscripts/routetocrappyanalogue"
> > debug
> > /dev/modem
> > 115200
> > defaultroute
> 
> This could be the cause of your trouble. Try replacing it with
> nodefaultroute.
> 
> > noipdefault
> > user xxxxxxxx
> > 
> > chatscript
> > 
> > ABORT BUSY
> > ABORT "NO CARRIER"
> > ABORT VOICE
> > ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
> > ABORT "NO ANSWER"
> > "" ATZX3
> > OK ATDT0000000000000
> > CONNECT \d\c
> > 
> > 
> > and in options
> > 
> > demand
> > idle 600
> > ipcp-accept-remote
> > ipcp-accept-local
> > :172.19.1.1
> > lock
> > 
> > Where 172.19.1.1 is the remote ip that the pppd server assigns me
> > So to get it working now I added a route for a particular ip via the pppd then tried to ping
> > it, which caused it to try dial up failed once for unknown reason and on retry
> > got through and then deleted my original route which I added again and pinged
> > fine then. So that means that pppd is changing my routing table when it
> > connects and I cant find where that script is at the moment.
> > 
> > What package does pon come from?
> > 
> It should be in pppd package. It is basically 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> pppd call $1
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Chris Bell wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon 31 Mar, Brent Geach wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Someone Im hoping should have experience with this
> > > > 
> > > > Im trying to get pppd to demand dial when trying to access a number of
> > > > geographically different ip's (ie a number of different ranges)
> > > > 
> > > > I can get pppd up and working and manually add all the routes but am wanting
> > > > to automate it all with the demand option in pppd but can seem to figure out
> > > > how to implement it!
> > > > 
> > >    The pppd can be configured for more than one destination and setup, and
> > > each configuration can be given a simple short name, and called using
> > >    pon <name>
> > > Are you trying to get the system to select, run, and close particular
> > > configurations according to need?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> 
> -- 
> David Pashley
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