PPP and ip-up

S J mymailid at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 17 22:28:33 UTC 2004


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mi, den 17.11.2004 schrieb S J um 22:40:
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>>I have just found out that the following command
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>>|lynx -source -auth=username:password 
>>'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=www.mydomain.com'|
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>>will automatically update my (dynamic) IP address on my DNS server 
>>(Zoneedit in my case) whenever it changes.
>>My questions are :
>>1)Does FC3 use PPP?
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>If you use it, then yes.
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>>2)Do I have to configure PPP : ip-up/ip-down?
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>What do you mean? How do you go online?
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Well, I didnt do anything specific to go online. My router has all my 
PPPoE info and when i installed FC3 i was online (it was like magic! ;) )

>>3)Where do I put the above command? Do I put it in 'ip-up.local' or 
>>'ip-up' or 'ppp.linkup' or 'dhcpcd-eth1.exe' ?
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>/etc/ppp/ip-up.local (which must have script form) is the proper place.
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>Alexander
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So all I have to do is put this

#!/bin/bash
lynx <blah blah blah>

in ip-up.local and thats it, right? I don't have to change anything else?
 
~SJ




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