Thanks, but that doesn't seem to help. I have tried diald and pppd
-demand, but neither seem to recoginize a demand request. Oh well, wait
for my area to get cable modems I guess.
Rajiv Ghai wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
> I am new to diald and to this mailing list but reading through all the
> recent mail it seems Redhat 6.0 and diald don't exactly work together. I
> tried diald using the latest rpm version and it gives all sorts of
> problems, including the process dying out for no reason. However, I tried
> using the latest pppd on Redhat 6.0 which has demand dialing. I just
> inserted the word "demand" in my existing ppp options file and viola it
> worked the first time. There were some additional options which you may
> need depending on how the IP addresses are allocated by your ISP and the
> timeout durations but they are explained in the new pppd man page. As I
> only had a day to try it out I have not found any bugs to report. Only
> minor problem is that when I first fire up pppd, it connects to my ISP. I
> then wait for it to time out, after which it waits for a demand from you.
> Try a telnet and it fires up again !
> Has anyone else given it a try or have any comments about this approach?
> Hope it helps.
> Regards
> Rajiv
>
> >
> >I had the old version of daild. It would dial but wasn't logging in to
> >my ISP. I got the new version. Now it doesn't do anything. I tried
> >the little graphical interface. Where do I start? I have typed daild
> >at the command line and started it from a daemon tool. When I start
> >something that should bring up the connection, I just get netowork
> >message error.
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> >Ken Lowther
> >Youngstown, Ohio
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