Sorry, poor choice of words: "the way to go." Last week while searching
for "demand dial" I came across a post where someone suggested to "just turn
on the 'demand' option for pppd" ... I recalled seeing the 'demand' option
in pppd's man page, but I didn't see 'demand' being widely offered as a
solution for dialing on demand. I did manage to get both, diald and
'demand' working. To my original question, I was wondering if anyone knew
what differences existed between the various approaches, (aside from the
kppp, rh dialer, etc. I mentioned earlier), to configure pppd - specifically
for demand dialing.
So now that I've been messing around with diald, kppp, pppd configuration
files, etc. it seems to me that all these are just different ways to get to
pppd. Seeing as how I'm new to Linux, this wasn't obvious to me ... I guess
I've been living the single-way-of-doing-things-per-Microsoft thing too long
;)
Very sorry I can't get you the article, it's that I covered a bit of reading
material since last week.
Thanks,
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:50 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Diald and RedHat Linux 6.1
why did you think demand dial with pppd would be the way to go ? I haven't
tried that but I have wondered ...
Diald works for me at the moment and so I'm sticking to it (that's until it
sticks it to me).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 17 March 2000 7:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Diald and RedHat Linux 6.1
I'm a bit new to the diald/pppd world, please vector me off if this is old
...
On the tail end of the RH 6.1 discussion ... Has anyone come across any
docs/articles comparing the different PPP applets out there: kppp, RH ppp,
Linuxconf and ifup/ifdown? I'm getting wrapped around the axle on all the
different ways to get to pppd.
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?
Thanks,
Greg
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