On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Niels Ole Staub Kirkeby wrote:
Hi
I'm new on this list and has a few questions regarding diald which i
hope
other members of the list could provide the answers for.
First of all what is diald-0.98.3 ? I thought that diald-0.16.5 was the
latest ?
diald 0.98.3 is the latest, available from diald.unix.ch.
Secondly i'm the lucky owner of a cable modem for which i would
like to use diald.
Yes i know that most people think that this is not necessary but
my setup is unusual as far as i can tell: My PC has been assigned
a STATIC IP-number and in order to gain Internet access i must
telnet to a remote machine and login.
.. ? why do you have to telnet to gain access if you have a cable
modem? the cable modem stays online all the time right?
This is done through the same device in which i gain access.
so therefore you already have access to something right?
Then i have Internet access though my standard network device (or
rather the network device to which the cable modem is connected).
This poses some difficulties with respect to diald. I have used
the ethernet device as device for diald and running in mode dev.
The one major problem i have left is buffering of packets. When i
try open the line i loose the first few packets. I've traced the
problem to the ethernet device WHICH IS ALWAYS UP. Thus diald
doesn't buffer the packets ! Anybody got a hint ? Should i
introduce some type of fake ethernet device which diald could
bring up and down ? Note that i cannot tell in fact whether my
link is up or down. I can login or logout but i cannot tell
status on the line (The link is automatically broken after 5
minutes without traffic)
you don't need diald at all. diald is for more for bringing network
interfaces up and down as required.
i guess what you want to do is to write a script to automatically log
yourself in - use expect - and then put that in your crontab to run
every 4 minutes, and then you'll always have internet access.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma
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