On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 14:41:23 +0100, you wrote:
> However, I want to change to a new ISP that is free but uses dynamic
> addresses. I have an account with them and I have tried adding dynamic
> to diald.conf which should work, but when I try this the ping freezes. I
> ran diald with debug 48, and tail -f /var/log/messages and I can see
> that the system has negotiated remote and local addresses OK, but the
> ping still doesn't work. I have deliberately used ping <somedomain> so
> the link should be brought up by a DNS request. If I <ctrl-c> out of the
> ping and try it again the ping works, so I guess its to do with the
> usual problem of packets getting lost because of changing IP address,
> but I have also tried echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr which did
> not work and I am now stuck. Have I missed anything else? Any help is
> appreciated.
Paul,
Have you put in dummy addresses? For some reason, the dynamic setup
requires a dummy local and remote address added to the diald.conf
file. On my system (which is identical to yours) I have the lines:
local 192.168.0.1
remote 192.168.0.2
to act as dummy placeholders.
See "man diald-examples" (about halfway down) for more details.
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