linux-avmb1:Re: PPPD: executing script when pppd comes up
Jan Schubert
Jan.Schubert at GMX.li
Fri Jan 14 17:10:11 CET 2005
Tony Crawford wrote:
>Jan Schubert wrote (on 14 Jan 2005 at 15:43):
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>>AFAIR this is just executed when the line gets connected, not when the
>>pppd starts / the interface comes up, is'nt it? But for connecting the
>>line the system has to know which packets to send through the device...
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>Ah. Read in man pppd about the demand option.
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>Theoretically you could put a wrapper script around pppd if you
>really want to start other things when it starts, but that's not
>necessary for dial-on-demand.
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Obviously I just don't get it. Why is it not needed? I've to set up (for
example) a lot of 'ip rule' and 'ip route' bound on the interface pppd
brings up. How can I do that?
Thx,
Jan
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