Well I managed to connect to the internet!

Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
like this:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
"/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"

The only problem is that it does not set the default route
automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
scautly work:

route add default ppp0

That does not bother me too much, but I want it to do it
automatically. Thanks for all your help!

Iguanaman

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:42 -0500, Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
> like this:
> /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
> "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"
>
> The only problem is that it does not set the default route
> automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
> scautly work:
>
> route add default ppp0
>
> That does not bother me too much, but I want it to do it
> automatically. Thanks for all your help!
>
> Iguanaman

Good work!

Why don't you just put all that in a script?

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin.....

while true do;

if /sbin/ifconfig | grep 'ppp0' &> /dev/null ; then

# check and see if your ppp interface is up, and if it is:

route add......

exit 0

else continue; fi; done

# if it isn't, check again until it is


(may need some tweaking, but I use one almost identical to it for the
same purpose)


Call it ppu (or my_nifty_internet_connection_script :-), run chmod +rx on it
and put it in /usr/local/bin.

Then you can just enter ppu at the prompt and it's done.

$type ppu

will tell you whether the string is taken for a function, script, application,
variable or alias...

AC

In comp.os.linux.misc Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:42 -0500, Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
> > like this:
> > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
> > "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"
> >
> > The only problem is that it does not set the default route
> > automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
> > scautly work:
> >
> > route add default ppp0
[..]

> Why don't you just put all that in a script?

While this should of course work, why not just read the fine
manual 'man pppd' and add 'defaultroute' to your options file?

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On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:24:53 +0100, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
>
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:42 -0500, Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
>> > like this:
>> > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
>> > "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"
>> >
>> > The only problem is that it does not set the default route
>> > automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
>> > scautly work:
>> >
>> > route add default ppp0
> [..]
>
>> Why don't you just put all that in a script?
>
> While this should of course work, why not just read the fine
> manual 'man pppd' and add 'defaultroute' to your options file?
>

Certainly a better idea, Michael.


AC

Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.misc Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:42 -0500, Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
>> > like this:
>> > /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
>> > "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"
>> >
>> > The only problem is that it does not set the default route
>> > automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
>> > scautly work:
>> >
>> > route add default ppp0
> [..]
>
>> Why don't you just put all that in a script?
>
> While this should of course work, why not just read the fine
> manual 'man pppd' and add 'defaultroute' to your options file?
>

That would clearly be too easy, and besides this gives him an excuse to
write another script :P

Iguanaman wrote:

> I managed to connect to the internet

We noticed. ;-)

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On Friday, in article
<r20vvv0p6fs039d06ubk2ttiucl94aurhf@4ax.com>
iggyman25@hotmail.com "Iguanaman" wrote:

> Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
> like this:
> /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
> "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"

> The only problem is that it does not set the default route
> automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
> scautly work:

> route add default ppp0

If you use the keyword "defaultroute" pppd will assume the default route
if one doesn't already exist. (If one does, you will still have to
manually add the ppp route, and optionally delete the original.)
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Iguanaman <iggyman25@hotmail.com> writes:

]Many thanks, I managed to connect to the internet using a pppd line
]like this:
]/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 debug user dwlee connect
]"/usr/sbin/chat -v '' ATDT5472107 CONNECT''"

]The only problem is that it does not set the default route
]automatically, so I have to enter this line to make the internet
]scautly work:

a) make sure that there is no default route when ppp starts up. Most
distros set up a default route on any ethernet card on the system.
Eitehr remove it (eg put route del default at the end of rc.local) or
set up the ethernet so that the default route is not set up.
b) make sure you have
defaultroute
in /etc/ppp/options.