On 27-Sep-99 John Hasler wrote: > Miles writes: >> I'm pretty sure that pppd does automatic (on-demand) _connection_ too, >> but you have to have a fixed IP address (which is why I don't do it, and >> thus don't really know the details). > > The current version does 'demand' without a fixed IP. Just give it a > pair > of dummy addresses and also ipcp-accept-local and ipcp-accept-remote. > What > it does not do is filtering, though there is a kernel patch for that > around. > > I'm hoping to get support for 'demand' into pppconfig before the freeze.
Should I be using pppd for on-demand connections rather than diald? -- Andrew