"Adams, James" wrote:
> Maybe a stupid one. If all that you want to do is to automatically initiate
> a dial-up connection when a
> connection to the internet is required, would demand dialing be just as
> effective? I have a small network at home with 3 boxes connected to the main
> Linux box. Will demand dialing work in this case or will I still have to
> work through my frustration with diald? Any help anyone would care to offer
> to this neophyte would be appreciated.
>
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Demand dialing (with pppd, I assume) would work. However, unless you've got a
static IP, it may not be any easier to set up than diald. The pppd man file
says
"... the use of demand dialling with peers that do dynamic IP address
assignment is not recommended."
I've spoken to someone who claims to have done it, and I tried it because diald
sounded difficult to setup with IP Masquerading. Once I read that line in the
pppd man file, I went back to diald and found it easy to setup with my masq'd
machines (all I had to do was add hostnames in /etc/hosts on each box and make
a small /etc/diald.conf file).
- Matt.
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