[opensuse] ADSL and using a dial-up backup line
Anyone care to tell me/us about your favourite solution? In particular one that does not involve a router with automatic, built-in dial-up. Years back I used to use diald, the dial-on-demand daemon, and I was thinking of using it for this too - but it seems to have more or less slipped into the very mature state (read unmaintained). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:08, Per Jessen wrote:
Anyone care to tell me/us about your favourite solution? In particular one that does not involve a router with automatic, built-in dial-up.
Years back I used to use diald, the dial-on-demand daemon, and I was thinking of using it for this too - but it seems to have more or less slipped into the very mature state (read unmaintained).
I have used pppd directly for a long period. I currently have a broadband wireless connection (to the ISP antenna about 1 mile away) which is handled by a server machine in my house. I use pppoe to the wireless recvr. But often, if the wireless goes down, I switch to pppd on my main machine connected to a normal modem. pppd has always worked fine for me and as you know, is the service that always ends up being used no matter front end you use to set it up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
I have used pppd directly for a long period. I currently have a broadband wireless connection (to the ISP antenna about 1 mile away) which is handled by a server machine in my house. I use pppoe to the wireless recvr.
But often, if the wireless goes down, I switch to pppd on my main machine connected to a normal modem.
pppd has always worked fine for me and as you know, is the service that always ends up being used no matter front end you use to set it up.
OK, it would be i/pppd regardless, but do you automate it or do you start it manually? I need it to happen automagically, both start and stop. AFAICT, the necessary routing changes can be made to happen automatically. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:41, Per Jessen wrote:
pppd has always worked fine for me and as you know, is the service that always ends up being used no matter front end you use to set it up.
OK, it would be i/pppd regardless, but do you automate it or do you start it manually? I need it to happen automagically, both start and stop. AFAICT, the necessary routing changes can be made to happen automatically.
I start it manually... I guess you'd just need to figure out something that would trigger it... (such as checking when your DSL is down) and then fire off a script. The routing, as long as it is on the same machine would be automatic. You *might* have a problem with your firewall since it would be using eth0 to go to your ADSL setup (I assume) and would be using ppp0 to go to the modem. But if you're using pppoe for ADSL then it would be ppp0 in both cases.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
I start it manually... I guess you'd just need to figure out something that would trigger it... (such as checking when your DSL is down) and then fire off a script.
Yes, I had some like that in mind - I was just wondering if anyone had already invented that particular wheel :-)
The routing, as long as it is on the same machine would be automatic. You *might* have a problem with your firewall since it would be using eth0 to go to your ADSL setup (I assume) and would be using ppp0 to go to the modem.
Good point. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
I start it manually... I guess you'd just need to figure out something that would trigger it... (such as checking when your DSL is down) and then fire off a script. The routing, as long as it is on the same machine would be automatic. You *might* have a problem with your firewall since it would be using eth0 to go to your ADSL setup (I assume) and would be using ppp0 to go to the modem. But if you're using pppoe for ADSL then it would be ppp0 in both cases....
I wonder if you could bridge these and then set up the IPs (recall an adapter can have multiple IPs) on and apply the firewall rules to the bridge. Or maybe SuSE lets you apply the same ruleset to multiple adapters? It would just seem to be a faf to have two different sets of rules that need to be kept the same (pretty much). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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