(PM) OR-u sync port on-demand dial-out-only woes. (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:19:51 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jason Marshall shaped the electrons to say...
>I'm using the "console" port on the remote OR-u to dial out to a PM3
>on demand. I've been led to believe that this is a "normal" thing to do.
>Anyway... It's not working on demand! I have to manually bring up the
>connection before anything happens.

It should work *exactly* like setting it up for ISDN. To ComOS a logical
port is pretty much the same no matter the physical interface.

> Location: spots Type: On Demand
> Destination: Negotiated Netmask: 255.255.255.0

You can't do on demand to a negotiated destination. With negotiated
there will never be an IP known, hence no route, hence no interface,
hence no dialing.

Negotiated is only used with Manual or Continuous connections.

>Here is the routing table. After I bring the link up manually, the
>"Unknown" changes to a real ptp interface name, as you'd expect.
>
>Destination Mask Gateway Source Flag Met Interface
>----------------- ---- -------------------- ------- ---- --- ---------
>192.168.100.0 24 192.168.100.1 local NL 1 ether0
>0.0.0.0 0 204.191.210.11 local NS 1 Unknown

Note there is no route for the location entry...

I don't know if this will work, but it MIGHT. You could make the default
route's gateway the local IP of the location.

There is currently an RFE open on assigning the default route to a location,
not an IP, to dial with negotiated. But at this time on-demand requires a
known destination IP to trigger a dial.

-MZ

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