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Re: Best Solution for PPP?



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


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