9 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: Several misc. questions on user m...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jay L. West | Feb 8, 1996 1:13 am | |
| Nate Williams | Feb 8, 1996 10:10 am | |
| we...@intele.net | Feb 8, 1996 11:34 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Feb 9, 1996 7:47 am | |
| we...@intele.net | Feb 9, 1996 11:10 pm | |
| Jay L. West | Feb 12, 1996 11:32 pm | |
| Jay L. West | Feb 12, 1996 11:40 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Feb 13, 1996 7:23 am | |
| Nate Williams | Feb 13, 1996 7:32 am |
| Subject: | Re: Several misc. questions on user mode PPP | |
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| From: | we...@intele.net (we...@intele.net) | |
| Date: | Feb 8, 1996 11:34:49 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
Jay L. West queried:
2) The link to my provider is started on boot. I'm using 'ppp -auto providername' and then 'ping -c 1 ip.address' in /etc/netstart. The ping times out before the connection is made, but it forces the startup (timeout is 0 in ppp.config). This seems a bit kludgey; is there a more elegant or standard way of starting a "dedicated" dialup link at boot time?
Nate Williams replied: % Not using iijppp. You may want to get my 'ddial' patches to iijppp, % which cause it to always keep the link up, but they *require* the % stability patches above because it triggers some of the bugs it fixes.
I think he was just looking for a somewhat more elegant way to starting the interface, as opposed to editing /etc/netstart, which is now supposed to be sacrosanct. Try the following:
In /etc/sysconfig, add your "tun0" device to the network_interfaces list:
network_interfaces="ed0 lo0 tun0" ... ifconfig_tun0=""
Now create a script called /etc/start_if.tun0 containing, i.e.:
#! /bin/sh # # Script to start ppp daemon in autodialer mode. # Wes Peters, 22 Jan 1996. # echo "Starting PPP link to InteleNET on tun0:" > /dev/console ppp -auto intelenet
This will automagically bring up your interface, without hacking netstart.
3) In /etc/sysconfig, I ifconfig lo0, ed0, and tun0.
% iijPPP auto-configures tun0, so there isn't a need to do that.
Right. If you use the start_if.interface file, make sure the entry for the interface in sysconfig is set to "".
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