on demand dialling

I am running a Red Hat 9.0 system as a router to the internet for the rest
of my home network. I would like to set it up so that kppp dials the
internet whenever there is a request from any of my network clients for
internet access. The Red Hat Linux Bible has a few paragraphs on this and it
suggests adding the lines:

ONBOOT=yes
ONDEMAND=yes

to the ifcfg-ppp0 file.

I have tried this but with no luck. Can any one suggest what I should be
doing.

Thanks in advance

In article <ZIo0c.3083$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Richard Mayes <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am running a Red Hat 9.0 system as a router to the internet for the rest
> of my home network. I would like to set it up so that kppp dials the
> internet whenever there is a request from any of my network clients for
> internet access. The Red Hat Linux Bible has a few paragraphs on this and it
> suggests adding the lines:
>
> ONBOOT=yes
> ONDEMAND=yes
>
> to the ifcfg-ppp0 file.
>
> I have tried this but with no luck. Can any one suggest what I should be
> doing.

I haven't used PPP in a long time, but when I did, I used diald.

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In article <ZIo0c.3083$(E-Mail Removed)>, Richard Mayes wrote:

> I am running a Red Hat 9.0 system as a router to the internet for the rest
> of my home network. I would like to set it up so that kppp dials the
> internet whenever there is a request from any of my network clients for
> internet access. The Red Hat Linux Bible has a few paragraphs on this and it
> suggests adding the lines:
>
> ONBOOT=yes
> ONDEMAND=yes
>
> to the ifcfg-ppp0 file.
>
> I have tried this but with no luck. Can any one suggest what I should be
> doing.

Maybe you should try changing the pppd options in
/etc/ppp/options?

$ man pppd

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html

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