[ale] pppd options

[Gary MacKay]

I'm using a RedHat 7.3 box for a dial-up access/firewall box at one 
location. Works pretty well, but would like to make some changes. Does 
pppd have any way to control the times that it dials in, how long it 
stays dialed in, etc. Kind of like the old diald program used to do.? 
The ISP this client is using is a pain. They cut them off at night and 
will not let them dial in until 7am the next morning. Believe me, I've 
tried to get the client to change ISP's, but.. well, that's another 
story. I have 'persist' set so it immediately dials back in if it gets 
knocked off-line for an unwanted reason, like during the day. They need 
it to connect right back in. But, for some reason, it is not timing out 
during the night. The 'idle' of 1200 (20 minutes) should drop the 
connection right? The 'demand' should then wait for traffic to cause a 
dial. They sware they turn all of their computers off at night so 
nothing should be keeping it connected.

Bottom line, I need it to be dial-on-demand during the day, and not at 
all during the night/weekends. I created a cron job to 'killall pppd' 
for now and reload it in the morning, but that seems too brute force to 
me. Just wondering if pppd had it's own options to handle this properly.

- Gary

The current /etc/ppp/options file is as follows:
lock
defaultroute
noauth
demand
persist
192.168.0.2:192.168.0.3
ipcp-accept-remote
ipcp-accept-local
holdoff 60
idle 1200
mtu 1500
mru 1500
ipcp-restart 1
ipcp-restart 1
user blocks
maxfail 0



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