Laurie Brown wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
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Next step is using wvdial (so it redials when busy) and then dial-on-demand.
Redial when busy and dial-on-demand can be done with pppd alone.
I thought wvdial didn't do dial-on-demand... Has that functionality been added?
no... those were two separate things I was going to try :-)
wvdial redials if busy whereas the config file linuxconf leaves me with doesn't. But I skipped that by writing a script to call chat and loop till it gives a non-zero RC.
I tried both diald and PPP's 'demand' modes, but named seems to randomly decide to talk to its forwarding DNS quite often so the link's up and down all day.
I ended up changing sendmail config files and starting/stopping fetchmail from ip-up and ip-down.
Not ideal though, I still need a way to initiate PPP from a Windoze client without telnetting in and running my script...
Neil
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