On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 08:22, Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote: > > I've pretty much tried to cobble this together (I'm against > > diald since it doesn't compile). But would appreciate any > > pointers from those who remember the dial-up days (or are > > still stuck in them). This is redhat9 btw. > > I can't offer any immediate direct help, but have you considered that > these days, demand dialling is an intergrated part of the pppd daemon > (sorry if that sounds like teaching granny to suck eggs!). > Yes, that's what I'm trying to configure- using wvdial for the chat scripts. > Also, are you sure it's not DNS or some other stray UDP stuff or netbios > (for instance) on the network that's triggering the demand dial? I > remember when I used diald that I had to put extensive filters in for > picking up local domain name lookups etc. Running a caching name server > stopped a lot of mis-triggers. > The machine was isolated- and if there was extra traffic it certainly wasn't IP traffic. (It could have been ppp options been re-negogiated, but my understanding was only IP traffic counted).. I've not really spent much more time looking at this, it at least does the dialing up as required, and using a FRIACO account it would at least drop after 2 hours (worst case). It would be nice to get it to drop the line when it's finished. > My SuSE 8.0 man page for pppd (8) says that active-filter "...is > currently only available under NetBSD, and then only if both the kernel > and pppd were compiled with PPP_FILTER defined". Is that a clue? I'm > looking at pppd 2.4.1 (pppd -v) So does mine- must have missed that one. > Of course, if active-filter isn't supported, the link will be coming up > all over the place :-( > Off to test putting iptables on the interface to restrict the traffic. > At that point, I'd turn to diald :-((( Thanks for the pointers. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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