Dial on Demand

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Richard McGrath wrote:

> How could I get my FC box to dial a ppp interface (ISDN modem) 
> whenever a DNS request is detected outside of the boxes network 
> (assuming the same box is the local DNS server).
>
> The ISDN modem drops out after 20 minutes of no activity so it would 
> be nice to just dial up when a request is made with out having to 
> manually go and start it up.


not sure,
but afair  userctl  and  demand  could be helpful


$ grep -1  "USERCTL\|DEMAND" /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.42.2/sysconfig.txt
    ONBOOT=yes|no
    USERCTL=yes|no
    BOOTPROTO=none|bootp|dhcp
----
      the specified number of attempts.
    DEMAND=yes|no
      Switches on demand-dialing mode using pppd's "demand" option.




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shrek-m