On Monday 08 September 2003 17:18, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:15, you wrote: > > Or I could just have everyone manually disconnect the modem socket when > > going to use the phone, which is often what people do anyway (bastards :) > > - unfortunately however, this does not change the behaviour of IPCOP. > > Plug the 'phone into the 'phone socket on the modem. > That's what it's for!
I have a weird setup at my house (the modem is on the other side of the house, don't ask ;-) And I don't have a phone socket on my modem anyhow. The point is that whenever the connection is dropped, I suspect it makes no difference from which end (ie. the ISP can and does drop me after extended periods), IPCOP should detect that the RED interface has gone down and go back to it's "waiting for dial on demand" mode. Mine doesn't. I can write something to run in the background and watch /var/log/ppp.log (or wherever it is on IPCOP), and whenever it sees the modem has dropped go and move the system back to "waiting for dial on demand" mode (does anyone know how I can do the last bit from the command line, not the web interface?). I just thought that maybe there was an option somewhere I hadn't seen for lack of experience with IPCOP, and there could be a simple/clean solution (as there was for the dyndns thing, thanks David :-) Cheers, Gareth > > > On Monday 08 September 2003 17:07, Col wrote: > > > >However - if someone picks up the phone, and the modem gets > > > > disconnected, it goes into "modem idle" mode. doh! It seems to think > > > > that the RED interface is still active (when it's damn well been > > > > disconnected), and won't go back to the "waiting for dial on demand" > > > > state until you first issue a 'disconnect' (so it thinks the RED > > > > interface is down) and then 'connect' from the web interface. This is > > > > most annoying, as it means every time we go to use it someone needs > > > > to manually put it into "waiting for dial on demand" mode before it > > > > can be used as "dial on demand" again - kinda defeats the purose, no? > > > > > > I recommend a telephone privacy adaptor. Basically it's a special > > > telephone double > > > adaptor that cuts off one socket when the other is in use. If you want > > > to see what one > > > looks like go to www.dse.co.nz and do a search on part F9772. > > > > > > > > > Col.
