"Chris Nelson" writes:
> I've looked at several different references -- man pages, How To sites,
> newsgroup archives -- without finding a clear answer: if I'm using pppd
> for demand dialing and IP forwarding (that is, I've got "demand" in an
> options file somewhere), where should I start up pppd? Should it be in
> inittab with a respawn? If I disabled my PPP client would I then
> change disable pppd in the inittab (by changing from "respawn" to "off"
> or by comment out that line)? No doubt I have options but what's the
> nromal way to do this?

The best place is probably an /etc/{init.d,rc.d,rc.*} script. (How
you do that depends strongly on the platform you're using, and you
didn't actually mention that part.)

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On 4 May 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.protocols.ppp, in article
<1146752159.019357.57700@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.c om>, Chris Nelson wrote:

>I've looked at several different references -- man pages, How To sites,
>newsgroup archives -- without finding a clear answer: if I'm using pppd
>for demand dialing and IP forwarding (that is, I've got "demand" in an
>options file somewhere), where should I start up pppd?

OK - you are dialing _out_ with that - start it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and don't forget 'echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr' so the
kernel knows the ppp0 interface is going to have dynamic addresses.

>Should it be in inittab with a respawn?

That's normally where it starts when someone is dialing _in_ to you,
rather than out to an ISP or similar.

Old guy