Even though pppd now has dial-on-demand, it doesn't make diald
'un-necessary'. Diald still has some features that may make it desirable
in certain situations. If you have a home LAN and want to make sure that
your children aren't going places on the net during the wee hours of the
morning, you can set up accounting so that diald will not dial up the
internet during certain hours, or when packets are passed to it from
certain ip addresses, etc. Also, it can vary the connect time, depending
on how long your are online, i.e. if you are on for only a few minutes (a
periodic fetchmail/sendmail job), it will drop the connection after only
a minute or so of inactivity. If on the other hand, you've been online
for an hour, but are pausing to read a news site, it will wait 10-15
minutes before dropping the connection. And it is all configurable. I
had this set up at one time, on a Slackware 4.0 box. The trade off is
that it is definitely more difficult to set up
(more options, etc.)
Monte
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Eugene C. Zesch wrote:
> > "admin.mdk" wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Air 7.02, and wanted to do a little proxy...
> > I tryed install diald, downloaded from LM librarys ...
> >
> > ... and diald doesn't work. I tryed install more than 7 times. Once
> > time it can connecting, more times can't...
> >
> > During boot diald.init messages me, it initialized ...
> > In what I'm wrong?
> > What can do problems?
> > Many thank's for your help ...
> >
> You might want to look into man pppd. pppd now has an option to dial on
> demand, making diald unnecessary.
>
> For instance, my /etc/ppp/options contains:
>
> 10.0.0.0:10.0.0.0
>
> demand
>
> idle 240
>
> ipcp-accept-remote
>
> ipcp-accept-local
>
> lock
>
> noauth
>
> connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-script"
>
> /dev/ttyS2 115200
>
> modem
>
> crtscts
>
> defaultroute
>
> noipdefault
>
> I'm not sure its elegant, but it works for me. On boot, I activate the
> connection with netcfg, and it works.
>
> Gene
>
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