>                                        I can ping, do what ever I like.  I 
> read that there is a script called ip-up which is "supposed" to 
> automatically execute once a connection is made.  I seem unable to make 
> this happen.  I saw in one e-mail that you have to use full path names for 
> the executables inside the ip-up script, did that.  No such luck.  I made 
> sure the attribute is set to -rwxr-xr-x and that didn't seem to help 
> either.

The /etc/ppp/ip-up script is executed when the pppd link is available for
sending/receiving IP.  Similarly, the /etc/ppp/ip-down script is executed
when the link is no longer available for sending/receiving.  The scripts are
passed the parameters: `interface-name', `tty-device', `speed',
`local-IP-address', `remote-IP-address' and `ipparam'.  The scripts must be
executable (maybe by the user running PPP - I can't remember - my scripts
were mode 0755).

As a test, you could try the appended script as /etc/ppp/ip-up.  You should
see messages output to the console when the link comes up.

J

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#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/ppp/ip-up
#
# Executed when a pppd link is available for sending and receiving IP packets.
#
# Parameters are
#       interface-name
#       tty-device
#       speed
#       local-IP-address
#       remote-IP-address
#       ipparam

echo "PPP link $1 up on $2 at $3" >> /dev/console
echo "Local IP: $4" >> /dev/console
echo "Remote IP: $5" >> /dev/console
#echo "Local hostname: "`/usr/bin/nslookup $4 | \
    /usr/bin/awk '{if ($1 == "Name:")printf $2}' >> /dev/console
echo "Additional parameters: $6" >> /dev/console

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