Ditto for me. Diald is good stuff. You're getting considerably more than you paid for. Look on the bright side. If it was M$ stuff, you woulda paid for it and it still wouldn't work. I've used version 0.16.5 with 2.0 and 2.1 kernels, 0.99.1 with 2.2 and presently 2.3.29. Most problems have been self-inflicted. On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:59:13 +0100 John Seifarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 16:40 -0500 6/12/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (snip) > > >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 > > __________________________________________________________________ > John Seifarth http://www.waw.be/waw/ > Words & Wires SPRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Consulting & Language Services Voice: (+) 32-2-660-3943 > 1160 Brussels, Belgium Fax: (+) 32-2-675-3922 > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------- Mearl Danner Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Samford University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
