Robert de Wit wrote:
The mailserver is connected with an ISDN adapter that works fine. As the mail attachement grow i size i would like to have the 2 ISDN line available to pop the mailbox at 128k. I used ppp0 to dialup an ppp1 as a slave device.
Do you mean ippp0 and ippp1 or do you mean you have an external ISDN adapter connected to your serial port? thats right i mean ippp0 and ippp1 with 1 ISDN internal ISDN modem i used the text below to configure ippp1 as slave device. i use imon to look if the second line comes in. but it never does, even when i use isdnctrl addlink ippp0 text from the suse site Until S.u.S.E. Linux 6.2 this feature is not implemented in the standard scripts. A link to an up to date script can be found at the end of this article. Example : A syncPPP connection is configured on the device ippp0. Now you want to add a second channel, when necessary. Check, which devices are already in use for syncPPP. We choose ippp1 as slave device (which may not be in use). Search for the configuration of ippp0 in /etc/rc.config. E.g. : NETDEV_1="ippp0", here the suffix _1 is important. In /etc/rc.config.d/i4l_sp_option.rc.config please change the value of the variable I4L_SLAVE_1: I4L_SLAVE_1="ippp1" In /etc/ppp/options.ippp0 adapt : # The device(s) # for more than one device try: # /dev/ippp0 /dev/ippp1 ... /dev/ippp0 such that it becomes # The device(s) # for more than one device try: # /dev/ippp0 /dev/ippp1 ... /dev/ippp0 /dev/ippp1 +mp Restart ipppd, e.g. by a reboot. Explanation : A pseudo device will be created (ippp1), which is only known to the i4l subsystem (resp. ipppd) . The network itself doesn't know it. The necessary isdnctrl-commands will be created automatically by the script i4l (see below), if the variable I4L_SLAVE is set like it was shown above. Usage : First you have to change the dialmode of ippp1 to auto: isdnctrl dialmode auto With the programs delivered with the distribution the second channel can only be started and stopped manually : start: isdnctrl addlink ippp0 stop : isdnctrl removelink ippp0