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Wvdial dial on demand on Redhat
Name: tk808 Date: April 5, 2004 at 09:36:37 Pacific OS: RH7.3 CPU/Ram: P3, 256Mb
Comment:
Hi I am trying to configure dial on demand using wvdial and pppd on an RH 7.3 machine. I follwed the instructions given on wvdial site (www.davidpashley.com/tutorials/wvdial-pppd-dod.html) but the article was written for a Debian platform as it refers to two scripts , pon and poff, which I cannot find on Redhat.
Can anyone tell me how to get this to work on a Redhat platform, or if there are alternatives to pon and poff which I can use.
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 5, 2004 at 19:06:07 Pacific
Reply:
Looking at the scripts pon and poff, pon does nothing much more than execute the 'pppd call xxx' command and 'touch' a file in /var/run/. poff basically just kills the pppd process and removes the touched file. If you don't want to write your own, I could email you the scripts, which you may need to modify slightly anyway - but you don't really *need* them.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wolfbone Date: April 5, 2004 at 21:05:53 Pacific
Reply:
...poff doesn't actually remove the file, but anyway - you can find a version of the scripts pon and poff to use as a starting point for your own in this tarball:
Name: tk808 Date: April 5, 2004 at 23:53:56 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks. I'll give it a try and get back to you. I think my main problem is that doing a killall pppd is locking up the modem and I can't bring up the connection again without rebooting the machine.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: April 6, 2004 at 00:58:10 Pacific
Reply:
Some distros use pppup or ppp-up scripts....
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Response Number 5
Name: Ronald Date: April 18, 2004 at 07:21:00 Pacific
Reply:
I think on Redhat you do as root # ifup ppp0 and then to disconnect you do # ifdown ppp0
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