- To: Bernhard L|der <bluder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Dial on demand
- From: paul <pwbradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Nov 10 12:25:15 2000
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Naturally I do not constantly want to redial the link every 2 hours,
> especially at night or when it is not used, ---> phone billl. So I
> thought I put on the PPP demand function, which I have working up to the
> extend, that it dials when the link is needed. However since I have to
> put in a fixed remote IP address for demand dialing under PPP, but the
> remote IP address is only known once I am connected (and is changing
> every the time), ppp actually does not establish the connection
> correctly when it reaches IP negotiation and exists
>
I experimented with this and got it working without specifying any ip
numbers, I do not have my script with me however, I just added the demand
option into the pppd command.
regards
Paul.