On Mon, 27 May 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote:
> Charlie Brady wrote: > > > Most apps have bugs. What particular failings do you believe that diald > > has? What is your evidence? > > Charlie, this isn't the first I (and I believe many others) have > reported problems with the dial-up! My response to them is the same as to you - present the evidence if you want rational discussion of the problem. You aren't really "reporting problems with the dial-up" unless you provide the details. > I don't have log files on me but I can get.... irratic dialing behaviour > for one. Every time I have looked at a diald problem the problem has been found elsewhere. Between examination of /var/log/messages and using diald-top to visualise diald's activity I've always been able to identify a problem which was outside of diald. You may very well have different experience, but if so, please accurately document the issue. > Here in darkest Africa we use alot of ISDN and analog dial-up. I have > discussed with a number of SME users and SIs and almost all of them have > told me about large phone bill costs (as we pay per call here). We pay per call in Australia as well. I've long been very wary of dial-on-demand, and believe that it should be avoided if at all possible wherever there are per-call costs. You'll also notice that there is a big warning in the User Guide about telecom charges and dial-on-demand: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/configexternal.dialup.html > An example would be SME dialing up (why I don't know), disconnect after > 5 mins and then redial 15 times or more? We have had to deploy > strategies like using dialmon or used leased lines! > > Another problem (which is a QMail isssue) is that outgoing mail is sent > immediately from the server and not queued? You'll find an answer to that problem in this thread: http://www.e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?f=3&i=11994&t=11147 > We have a fix for this and will make it available to others soon! > > I have also discussed diald with people not using SME (i.e. vanilla > linux server) and they have also told me of dial-up problems in the past > with daild! > > This isn't an attack on SME/Mitel, just an enquiry for a replacement for > diald? I doubt that there is one. You'd spend your time better identifying the precise problems you have and working out how to fix or work around them, by applying, for instance, the qmail concurrencyremote tweak to control outgoing mail delivery. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
