hi rajiv,
can you tell me how you made your demand on pppd work in redhat6. i
cant seem to make mine work. how do you connect to your isp. im
connecting via control-panel. i click the netconfig then the interfaces
then the ppp0. i cant make mine work even though ive put the demand on
the options tab.
>>
>> 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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