Re: [TCLUG:9360] pppd with demand dialing / keeping packet that opens connection

["John J. Trammell" <trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu>]

Hello all:

> From: Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9360] pppd with demand dialing / keeping packet that
>  opens connection
>
> That's ip forwarding, I've already got that working. Somebody mentioned
> something about there being a different file that will actually save the
> packet that brings up the diald (well, in this case, pppd dial on demand)
> connection and will send that packet when the connection comes up, instead
> of just forgetting it as usually happens. This way, whatever request
> brought the connection up will be completed. I just have to deal with some
> clients that can't understand the concept of having to do one connection
> attempt to the web site / e-mail server to bring the connection up, and
> then resending that connection attempt to actually establish the
> connection. Any ideas?

I don't know about saving the acutal packet, but there's a debugging
option to turn on the logging of matched filter rules...

Check out:

    http://www.r-senior.demon.co.uk/linux/diald.html

John