At 16:40 -0500 6/12/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Diald is broken, I think....too much trouble for/by too many good people.
>Some got it to work on older kernels (2.0.xx) but I have spent too much
>time trying to get it going, nobody is at the helm up there in Diald
>programming land....sorry!
>
>Fred
>
I have to disagree. I've used diald versions 0.14 through 0.99.1 with
kernels 1.2.1 through 2.2.13. I have had some problems over the years, but
I've found diald to be stable and reliable. I don't use masquarading, I 've
always run my own proxies and servers locally: named, sendmail, squid,
socks and others as needed. I've found diald to work fine with PSTN modems,
ISDN cards (using the ttyIx device) and TAs, static and dynamic IP accounts.
As for controlling the link, I've used dctrl over TCP in recent versions
quite successfully with Linux, Mac OS and Windows clients running dctrl
under TCL. On the Mac, the tool tips flicker nastily, but I haven't had
anyone needing it enough on that platform for me to try and figure out why.
Please note that there is no maintainer working on this project paid with
IPO money. Mike Jagdis has been maintaining it for a bit over a year now,
and has done some excellent work in enhancing it. He did the work, if I
recall correctly, as part of his job of keeping something like 40 dialup
connections running. I also seem to recall that he recently has changed
jobs, and is probably very busy for the moment. But if you do take a look
in the archives, you'll notice that his last comment dates to the 31st of
October. Cut the guy some slack, already! Why don't you convince Red Hat to
bankroll his work. Then I'm sure the "helm up there in Diald programming
land" would be held on a steady course.
John
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