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I am using /etc/ppp/ip-up.local for this purpose. In my case it contains:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/SuSEfirewall start
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 -a -L /var/log/fetchmail

When connection is gone, ip-down.local does the cleaning:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/SuSEfirewall stop
/usr/bin/fetchmail -quit

HTH, Kastus

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John P. Griffin wrote:

> Now that I got Dial On Demand (/sbin/init.d/wvdial.dod) with the 1.41-67
> version of wvdial.rpm; working on my SuSE 6.4:kernel 2.2.16 box running. I
> still have to manually run the final pass of '/sbin/init.d/firewall start' to
> get the firewall script to turn on ipchains for the newly establised IP
> address given to the firewall box from the ISP. If I don't run
> '/sbin/init.d/firewall start' after the pppd daemon dials, then all of my
> internal LAN clients can't get out to the open internet.
> 
> What is the way to have '/sbin/init.d/wvdial.dod' and pppd kick off
> '/sbin/init.d/firewall' after every ISP connection triggered by an internal
> LAN client?
> 
> I am in the process of reading the 100's of pages of IPCHAIN-HOWTO,
> FIREWALL-HOWTO; however it would be greatly appreciated if someone has already
> crossed this chasm.
> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
> 
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