Setting up demand-dialing for a dial-up ISP?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 02.05.2004 schrieb Bob Shaffer um 12:23:

> You don't have to use wvdial or any other dialer.  You don't need to be
> logged in as root to do anythig but set it up.  Read the man page for
> pppd, and maybe the PPP Howto on tldp.   PPPD can dial and dial-on-demand
> by itself.  I think the option may be 'demand'.  If you make pppd setuid
> root you can also use 'pppd call your-isp' as anybody once you set it up. 
> It's all well documented in the man/info pages.

Using "USERCTL=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 should
it make it not necessary to set pppd setuid root.

Alexander


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