The demand option to pppd is the way to go if you do not care what brings up
the link and you are satisfied with a single idle timer for all packets.
If you have time of day restrictions, the need for certain packets to be
ignored (netbios comes to mind) or the need to tailor the idle timeout based
on the traffic being handled then diald remains the better option. When and
if packet filtering for pppd in linux becomes a reality that may change.
[Last I heard someone volunteered to work on a filtering patch for pppd in
linux but I haven't seen it.]
I trust you did not really ask us to support your using pppd demand dialing
rather than diald. There is an excellent linux-ppp list on this server for
that discussion.
Lourdes
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> Another question, I managed to get diald working, but some reading I did
> last night that suggested the "demand" option to pppd was the way to go.
I
> got that to work, and initiated the demand dial using ping. In some cases
> the ping seems to have times out, other, the ping waited until my ppp0 was
> up and route added. Is there a timeout setting or something I missed?
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