Hi Andy!

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andy Kelley N1YEW wrote:

> did you ever notice that demand dialing dials randomly??
>
> andy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Eggleston <mikeegg@PRODIGY.NET>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT]: LINUX AND MASQUAREDING
>
>
> > I'm using a linux box as demand dialup for five windows boxes and have no
> problems at all. I'm also using masquerading and ip routing.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Andy Kelley N1YEW wrote:
> >
> > > I dont know if I spelled that right but here goes:
> > >
> > > On my linux machine which is acting as a gateway for my win machine is
> masq'ing the 192.168.0.x network.. linux connects to dialup.  then after
> many days linux prints a line of the routing table(by typing route of
> course) and halts.
> > >
> > > did anyone else notice this problem?
> > >
> > > if so did you find a fix?
> > >
> > > I found a way to temporarily fix it.
> > >
> > > type
> > > route
> > > route del default
> > > (wait a minute or two )
> > > route add default gw gateway interface
> > >
> > > substitute gateway's ip for gateway and interface (for you guessed it)
> interface...
> > >
> > > Andy K
> > > N1YEW
> > >

I have never noticed random dialing, but it does dial a lot for various reasons.
It might be getting the net time, checking dns, pulling email for my
local imap4 server, or other reasons. I'm really very happy what what I have
so far, but I still want to extend it further.

Mike

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