On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote:

> I am looking to start a discussion about dial-up on SME.

We've had it before.

> As some you have found out (the hard) - SME dial-up seems to be irratic!

You didn't present evidence for that before, and you haven't done it now.

> Firstly I would like to find as much as possible about diald?
> Also are there any alternates?

We've been there before too. No, there is no real alternative, other than 
a permanent connection, or a periodic connection at regularly scheduled 
intervals - and diald can handle those just fine as well.

> To give you an idea of the problem, here is a report from our 
> dial-up/auth server on 1 of hour SME server:
> 
> Calls = 639, Time online = 51:20:50, 55MB in, 13MB out
> Cnt     Dialed From    Cnt     Dialed From    Cnt     Dialed From
> 639
> 
> As you can see there have been 639 calls in the last 8 days!!!! Seem 
> excessive?

No, it is probably doing exactly what it is being asked to do.

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