Re: dial-up networking (ras)

Marylin wrote:

Bob Bob wrote:

Hi Marylin

SuSE's equivalent is smpppd. It is a task that is started from
runlevels.

I have it setup on a CLI only box. (ie no GUI) I configured it all
through YAST for dial on demand, enabled smpppd in runlevels and then
had a simple script (below) that started as the last rc3.d task.

#!/bin/sh
cinternet --interface-number=01 --interface-name=modem0 --start

Before it tries to connect or dial it creates a dummy PPP interface
with a private IP address. This changes after the connection is made.

Your only issue really is how do you make it dial if the Ethernet
connection dies. I guess you could setup default route with a lower
metric value but I don't know how successful that would be. There may
be something already inbuilt to handle it but I have never checked. I
think though I would write a script from scratch that checks the far
end of the Ethernet connection every few seconds. After it gets 2 or
three successive failures (ie a lost ping) I would then manually
launch smppd through cinternet but not as dial on demand. After the
connection was made and the default route set to the modem I would
continue to check the far end of the Ethernet link ready to drop the
dialup as needed. I use to have something similar to this that kept a
PPP over SSH over Ethernet link running.

wvdial is kind of the front end that starts the modem dialing, then
hands off to pppd to make the IP connection. wvdial I think is called
by smpppd.

Going into YaST's software manager will show you a list of
applications
both installed and not. rpm -qa will give you a text list. man -k
might be a good way to find an app name based on its description. eg
'man -k postscript' will list all manual pages with the word
postscript in it. You have to do this from a terminal window of
course.

Hope this helps..

Cheers Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks for all the good advice.
It's a bit unfortunate there is no KDE-program to launch a modem
connection. (They have one in Mandriva!)
I am not eager to return to console computing, thats a thing of the
past, when computers were dinosaurs (360/370 etc), when processing
capacity was so scarce and expensive that the user interface had to be
minimal in terms of resources needed. Of course, this is no longer the
case now, there is no reason to impose oneself the drudgery of command
line studying and -typing except of course you are already a virtuose
or you regard it as some kind of religion....

In fact, I am not too concerned with getting my modem to dial when the
ethernet connection is lost. My high-speed dsl-connection is provided
by a company that is a very good provider except for the usenet. (a
neglected variety of the internet, but one I love). So, with the
dsl-connection only, I can get very few newsgroups. To get many more,
I connect occasionally by a 56K modem to a good usenet provider on a
connection-time base (no
subscription). Then, I have the 56K RTC-modem and the dsl up at the
same time and I have access to nearly 100K newsgroups - that works (so
far in windows).
So, all I need is to be able to connect manually the secondary
provider through the modem from time to time....

FWIW When I installed 10.1 it found my serial 56k modem on com 2. All
the other bits to use it were installed automagically.

I wonder if the modem is a "winmodem" ?

--
Baron:
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