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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!usenet.cisco.com!iverson From: iverson@cisco.com (Tim Iverson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with PPPD dial script(s) Date: 11 Jul 1996 22:52:13 GMT Organization: cisco Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4s40it$iib@cronkite.cisco.com> References: <HUFF.96Jul7001252@sunspot.tiac.net> <4rrf2f$fg@anorak.coverform.lan> <4ruq0b$or7@cronkite.cisco.com> <4s0ob8$9n@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: rottweiler.cisco.com In article <4s0ob8$9n@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: |So, a script that says | | ( chat .....; pppd .... ) </dev/cuaa0 >&0 2>/tmp/ppp.err & | |should do the trick.... Nice one - although you won't get a nice |uucp lock file (will you?). Well, the sio driver will prevent concurrent access, so this doesn't bother me much. I have a TCP alternate in the UUCP config so that if the normal dials fail, it will try to contact my ISP via TCP over the PPP link. That way I still get news and mail with the nice UUCP spooling even when I'm using the modem for PPP. I'm toying with the idea of adding dial on demand to pppd. Cleaning up the NAT in ipfilter is another attractive project. It would be really nice if PPP on FreeBSD was simple to use and configure. This is all just a pipe-dream now -- I think it will be a while before I'm sufficiently motivated to actually do anything. ;-) - Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com