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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!barracuda.pelican.net!not-for-mail From: "Stephen C. West-Fisher" <steve@pelican.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tips : Dynamic PPP On-Demand Setup Date: 12 Dec 1996 13:41:01 GMT Organization: Pelican Net Lines: 23 Message-ID: <01bbe832$1d12c9c0$6fc809c0@mullet.pelican.net> References: <58jrqe$vks@lantana.singnet.com.sg> <58njq9$emt@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mullet.pelican.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1157 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32534 Andrew J. Korty <ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> wrote in article <58njq9$emt@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>... > In article <58jrqe$vks@lantana.singnet.com.sg>, > Jason Tseng <light@singnet.com.sg> wrote: > > >- About the timeout value in ppp.conf. I noticed that the system will > >logon to the ISP even when I do nothing to access any net > >addresses.While it is connected, I have yet to test the timeout value > >to see if it will disconnect after the certain period of time, or stay > >online indefinitely. Take a look at ppp.config.filter.sample (or something like that). You need to add filters to the connection so that DNS lookups, etc. don't open your connection. Also look at your sendmail flags because you don't want to keep checking your email. If you have the same setup as I, with Ethernet at home with a registered site, and a uucp connection to the ISP I run (where the DNS records reside), but live in a different state, it is complicated. I have an account with an ISP where I live which is what the ppp connection is for. I run UUCP over TCP/IP to connect to the ISP I run. I don't want all the connections so I also had to compile sendmail to not use DNS as well as modify sendmail.cf.