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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: PPP on demand doesn't--why? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DCnnHr.zz@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <3vds6p$gnq@blackice.winternet.com> <3vfr1t$aic@agate.berkeley.edu> <3vhae6$fb6@blackice.winternet.com> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 23:20:15 GMT Lines: 33 John Boggs (robigo@winternet.com) wrote: : I did what Jordan suggested. I put host before bind in : /etc/host.conf, and I made sure /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup included : MYADDR: : add 0 0 HISADDR : I still don't get an automatic dial when I try a network function, I : just get told "no route to host" if the host is in my /etc/hosts file, : and "Unknown host" for hosts not in my /etc/hosts. : Is there a FAQ for iijppp anywhere that might help with this? Check your ppp.conf, and the sample files, again. You'll notice that all the "on-demand" examples in ppp.conf.sample include the "set ifaddr" and "add" commands, while the others wait for the connection to be made before they set the address or route (from ppp.linkup). My demand-dialed setup does not use ppp.linkup at all. I guess ppp needs the routing info when it's started in order to make it appear the host is on a network. Could this be what you are overlooking? I also ifconfig tun0 from /etc/sysconfig, but I do have the luxury of a fixed ip address; not sure if dynamic address assignment would allow me to do the same thing. (It's not necessary to do this, as iijppp does it for you; but it looks nicer when you boot the machine not to see all those "network unreachable" type of messages... :-) Hope this helps. -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net