From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 10:52:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.ora.com (ruby.ora.com [63.80.158.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C3F37B976 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbertsch@ruby.ora.com) Received: from localhost (mbertsch@localhost) by ruby.ora.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09357; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:52:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch To: Daniel Haischt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial on demand In-Reply-To: <000d01bfccb5$936cef40$0278a8c0@abyssworld.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try "ppp -auto [connection_name]". It starts and configures ppp, and then goes into the background, and waits to bring the link up until there's outbound traffic. "man ppp" for the details. -Mike On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Daniel Haischt wrote: > hello, > > i'm using pppd with dynamic ip on > my local network router. > > just a simple question - is it possible > that pppd starts automatically everytime a > program causes network traffic. > > regards > > daniel haischt > -- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message