Dial on demand on BSD

This is an old post .. from my first blog about Dial On Demand (DoD) on BSD systems. I think it might be useful for some people so I’m reposting it. Bare in mind that this post is a bit old , and some things my not be so accurate, but the logic behind it is still valid.

For a lot of reasons, I had to reboot my old pc at home to use it. (Actually even the newer stuff that i have at home are quite old, except my SUN blade 150) This PC has not been rebooted for almost 2 years, so when i booted it I found some of the stuff that i was doing back then. One of the things I did was to setup Dial On Demand. I usually have my desktop on so i just ping someplace, or use the browser and it automatically dials, get the data, and after some time just hand up (if i don’t use the net).