On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:07:09PM -0400, fred smith wrote:
> How do I have diald manage two different links, one to my ISP and one
> to my office? When it is trying to manage the link to my ISP I can't
> even manually bring up a PPP connection to the office without first
> killing diald.
If unrelated processes are competing for use of the phone line, make
sure they all follow the same locking protocol. Make sure both the
diald and ppp have the 'lock' keywork in their configuration files.
Of course, only one can be connected, so when you want to connect to the
office, the ISP diald must not be connected. You should not have to
kill it, however, if you are using locks.
>
> There's gotta be a way but it doesn't jump out at me from a couple of
> (re-)reads of the docs.
The solutions to this problem depends on your requirements.
If you don't use the office connection as a gateway, and you know the ip
address of the office server or the address range, you could set up a
second diald process just for office connections AND add a route entry
which sends all office bound packets to that diald's proxy and ppp
interface. Managing multiple diald processes is possible, but you can
no longer depend on diald to setup the default route for you, so you have to
handle that manually.
The FAQ contains more information about this
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