Re: RE: Demand dial doesn't raise ISP connection

["Planetarium" <webmaster.planetarium@btopenworld.com>]

Thanks Robert,

That was very helpful, first checked for defaultroute but I already had that
option in my diald.conf file but you're right I did need to change local &
remote adresses to some other non-internet address not on my network and the
mask to 0.0.0.0, however I also needed to change the /etc/sysconfig/network
file to have:
GATEWAY=192.168.1.6                    <the local address I changed
diald.conf to>
GATEWAYDEV=sl0                           <rather than eth0 as it was set to>
then obviously restart network with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart.  Tried
the local & remote without the GATEWAY change & it didn't work, also tried
the GATEWAY stuff without the changes that you suggested and it didn't work
either.  Together the whole thing is just great, infact I'm inundated with
demand dial-ups so there's clearly some housekeeping to do on the network
and some routing issues to deal with.

Thanks once again for the prompt response ... saved me thinking about it for
the third weekend in a row!  We're hoping to switch to ADSL as soon as BT
can give us the go ahead for our countryside site so it may all have been a
lot of messing about for nowt, but it's a good learning experience.

Regards,
Ed.

> >  from:    Robert Jenkins <raj@jrw.co.uk>
> >  date:    Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:33:05
> >  to:      webmaster.planetarium@btopenworld.com
> >  subject: Fw: RE: Demand dial doesn't raise ISP connection
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The default route is showing as ETH0 in both wait & connect states - it
> > should be SL0 & PPP0 respectively...
> >
> >
> > I think you may need to set the 'fake' addresses (local & remote) for
the
> > PPP or SL0 link to something that is not on your Local network, and set
the
> > link netmask back to the default 0.0.0.0 so the routing can work.
> >
> > Try using either 192.168.1.x or 10.0.0.x
> >
> > I get the impression that nothing is ever actually routed to SL0 in
'wait'
> > state..
> > (I think there is a 'defaultroute' option useable in diald.conf, or
> > something to that effect??
> > I don't use diald now, as I'm on ADSL. I used it for a couple of years
with
> > excellent results, though.)
> >
> >
> > You can check by doing a traceroute to a website (or your ISPs DNS
address).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert Jenkins.
> >
> >
>