I am trying to set up a Redhat 6.0 box for some friends of mine. This
machine will need to share a phone line with thier voice phone, so I am
trying to make it conserative about using the phone. On the other hand,
I want to make it automaticly dial up and do things like collect mail
using fetchmail.
I am using the stock, as deliverd Redhat 6.0 kernel and diald 0.99. I
have set up the chat scripts etc, so that I can issue, for example a
pngs, and a connection will be established. I have tried both with and
withou a local caheing nameservr.
The problem I am having is that the first connection that is atempted
(the one that brings up the loing) fails, every time. This is true for
both fetchmail, and ping. I am not runing masqurading, since this is a
one host system with no local network,
I am setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dyn_addr to 1 in rc.local. Acording
to my reading of the documentation, this should cause the source
address of the outgong packets to be rewriten to the address that I am
assigned by the ISP on retry packets, after the conection is brought
up.
Sounds like exactly what I nedd (or at least close enough to wotk), but
yet it's not working for me.
Can anyone sugest what I am doing wrong here? Or any further debugng
tools Ican bring to bear on this?
There is some discussion of seting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dyn_addr to 2
o get debugin info, where would this info be snt to?
Thanks for any ideas on this, I have been fighting it for over a week
now, and my frustration level is a bit high :-(
Thanks for any helpful sugestions on this.
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Westvaco
Charleston SC.
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useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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