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  From: Peter McCarthy <mccarthy@mail.austasia.net>
  To  : 'Linux SA' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:29:00 +1000

RE: PPP

Thnax Chris you were right on the money.  I get a lot of crap from my ISP before I actually get PPP dialog, so putting in the delay worked great.

Now the next question....

Does anyone know where I can get a pppdialer.  Now I know all about ppp-on etc, but I have used a pppdialer deamon that I download from somewhere that would call ppp-on when the link was down, and also call another script that was a keep alive ping.  When the link broke for whatever reason the deamon would recall the ppp-on script to bring back the link.  Does anyone know where I can fing this !!!  If I could only remember where I got it from I could sleep better tonight.

I am running RH 4.2 with no X (as I believe an X util can do this sort of thing)  I have found a dialer that is supost to be an on demand dialer but the damn makefile wont work.

Your help is appreciated

-----Original Message-----
From:	Chris Adami [SMTP:cadami@senet.com.au]
Sent:	Thursday, July 24, 1997 4:36 PM
To:	Peter McCarthy
Cc:	LinuxSA
Subject:	Re: PPP

Peter McCarthy wrote:
> I have trouble with the ppp-on script.  Every time I use it I get through all the chat stuff no problem, but at the stage when ppp is negotiating for the IP address the modem hangs up.  I have had no luck getting pppd to log anything meaningful in /var/log/messages (how is this done I know it is in syslog.conf but how ???) .
> 
> I can successfully establish a link if I go through minicom and fire off
> pppd /dev/modem defaultroute
> No problems, I can ping the world and everything,  just cannot get the damn script to work.
> 

Perhaps you have a similar problem to one I had, being the time between
when the last extry in the ppp-on-dialer script is executed, and when
ppp frames are sent by the ISP.

Previously, password was the last entry, so I added to ppp-on-dialer:
	'IP addr'	''
which is sent a few lines prior to ppp starting.
It delays pppd starting and gives time to pick up the IP address.

Hope this helps.

Chris Adami