ppp demand dial

[Andrew Bulmer <abulmer@jamdeaf.org.jm>]

I'm having trouble getting demand dial to work on debian testing. I
compiled my own kernel (2.4.21) and set up NAT. I uncommented the demand
and and idle 300 in /etc/ppp/options. I've tried it with and without the
persist option. Here's a little more info:

/etc/init.d/ppp start
Starting up PPP link: pppd.

ps aux
...
root      5271  0.0  0.3  1936  892 ?        S    12:16   0:00 pppd call
provider
...

route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth1
0.0.0.0         10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0

I use the /etc/init.d/ipmasq to enable NAT and it works fine. I don't
think the NAT has anything to do with it since I can try pinging outside
hosts while logged in locally to the server and it still doesn't
connect.

Is there some option that I missed when configuring the kernel?

Thanks,
Andrew Bulmer