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From: biswick@heathers.stdio.com (Chad Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tips : Dynamic PPP On-Demand Setup
Date: 16 Dec 1996 19:01:05 GMT
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Jay Sachs (sachs@interactive.net) wrote:
: A good place for this is in /etc/rc.local:
: echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
: # put your local stuff here
: /usr/sbin/ppp -auto ondemand >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo -n ' ppp'
There is also a way to start it up with the rest of your network drivers.
In /etc/netstart there is this:
# Set up all the network interfaces, calling startup scripts if needed
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
. /etc/start_if.${ifn} ${ifn}
fi
eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}
ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
ifconfig ${ifn}
done
So, if you make a start_if.tun0 in /etc with:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/ppp -auto ondemand
ppp will start up with the rest of the networks, and things like rwho will
recognise it as a valid interface.
This is all assuming that you have tun0 in sysconfig. I don't know how well
it would work with non-static ips, but works fine for me.
Chad.
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