On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Thomas Michalka wrote:
>Theo. Sean Schulze wrote:
>
>> One change to the information below: I chopped the standard.filter stuff
>> off of the end of the /etc/diald.conf file and inserted 'include
>> /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter' (without the quotes).
>>
>> Another question has also come up. How can I find out what version of
>> diald is installed on my system?
>
>Have a look in '/usr/doc/packages/diald/'.
>
That doesn't seem to be completely reliable. After I posted the above
question, I installed diald 0.16. The README file in the above directory
says it belongs to 0.14
[snip]
>> As mentioned above, I added these settings to the top of the stock
>> diald.conf file, and that file is at /etc/diald.conf.
>>
>> local 0.0.0.0
>> remote 0.0.0.0
>
>Not very well chosen IP numbers. It's better to take them from the "private
>pool", but from that time never use these in your local network or any other
>purpose.
>I have set local 192.168.1.1
> remote 192.168.1.2
>
I set local and remote up as 0.0.0.0 because it is easy to type and even
easier to remember. Since I am setting my IP addresses for the ppp link
dynamically, these two values get ignored/overwritten.
>It would also be a good idea to take them from "another network", let me explain
>this:
>
>You see my diald-relevant addresses above belonging to the
>"192.168.1.0-network".
>My small LAN at home uses the "192.168.0.0-address-room".
>(Note: The last number ".0" in the addresses above are reserved for labelling
>the specific network used and, AFAIK, must not be used as an address)
>
My three-machine network here at home uses 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 and
192.168.0.3. I'm certainly no expert, but I think these are class C IP
addresses. So, the last eight bits are host bits and are used to define
the host.
[snip]
>>
>> Oct 3 15:35:38 dragoon diald[6605]: Running connect (pid = 6719).
>> Oct 3 15:35:38 dragoon syslog: IPX support is not present in the kernel
>
>You could explicitely exclude the usage of IPX by PPPD (see the manpage) to
>avoid this message.
>
It's only a minor annoyance, if that. So it would be more trouble than it
is worth, I think, to try to "fix" it now. Certainly worth looking into
later though. Thanks.
[snip]
>>
>> Oct 3 15:36:09 dragoon pppd[6719]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr 192.168.0.3>
><compress VJ 0f 01>]
>> Oct 3 15:36:09 dragoon pppd[6719]: local IP address 192.168.0.3
>
>After pppd has negotiated addresses with your ISP you should not have a private
>local address from the 192.168.0.0-network, but your private address you
>initially have to lie about in "diald.conf" (can be 192.168.0.3, see above)
>should have been substituted by an address of your ISP's pool which has been
>dynamically given to you.
>
Yep, you're right. But right now, I can't figure out for the life of me
why it is giving me my own local address instead. As you noted above,
that address isn't even defined in my diald.conf.
[snip]
>
>Regards
>
>Thomas Michalka
>
>
Cheers,
Sean.
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