[ale] RANT dial on demand

[Dow Hurst]

Tell you what:

Post your mother-in-laws email to us and we will pass on your positive 
comments on the situation. ;-)

Actually, wvdial should work great if you don't have the function 
enabled that just starts ppp.  Since she is dialing in to you, you would 
set the parameters on your server.  Don't you have her doing CHAP or 
PAP?  Also, under SuSE 7.1 there was a dod.wvdial script in /etc/init.d 
that would, if called, start wvdial in dial on demand mode.  Once you 
got the first connection with wvdial working, then you could enable the 
dod.wvdial script and forget about it.  Had a friend's firewall do that 
for his business and they were never down.  He loved it.  I guess you 
could dig that script out of some old SuSE distro such as 7.1.

Usually you are looking for wvdial to look for a "ogin:" prompt.  If you 
don't provide it then wvdial can, if enabled, just start PPP.  That is 
kind of like walking in a bar, pulling out the hogleg, and letting her 
bang away.  Not very elegant!!!

Once you get passed the login and password prompts then the server 
should start PPP.  The client should just look for a tilde since that is 
always found in a PPP frame.  I have the O'Reilly PPP book if you want 
to borrow it.  Just let me know when you'll come by.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 10 August 2003 14:50, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>> If
>>> joe user can't get a simple thing like dial on demand to work, they're
>>> not going to buy it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gee. You are starting to sound like me. ;)
>
>
> OH, MY, GOD!  More beer.... :)
>
> Actually, I'm pretty much over it now, she's going have to just deal 
> with it.  She doesn't have many options anyway, I won't provide her 
> support if she goes back to windows and I won't let her connect to my 
> network if she's running windows.
>
> Yeah, that's the way I treat my mother-in-law, my way, or the highway. 
> How about the rest of you macho guys? (Damn, I hope she's not 
> subscribed to the list...)
>

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