Seems that the newer versions of ppp (2.3.x) have demand dialing built in.
I'm just checking into it tonight. I'm still light on know-how on this
subject though.
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From: Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: August 18, 1999 1:55 AM
Subject: ppp 2.3.9, kernel 2.3.13 & diald
>The changes to the kernel pppd drivers in 2.3.13 seem to have broken
>diald (0.99-1), it will invoke chat and launch pppd but does not
>recognise that ppp is online.
>
>I have isolated where it seems to be failing (or at least the first
>place), it is making a PPPIOCGUNIT ioctl call to the serial device
>(/dev/ttyS1 on my system) upon which it is launching ppp. The response
>from this is EINVAL. Obviously the new "split" kernel driver has
>changed the way that this is supposed to work. I have tried (as an
>experiment) changing it so that it sends the ioctl to /dev/ppp but
>this does not seem to be the correct action as it returns ENXIO.
>
>Has anyone got diald working with the new pppd and kernel drivers?
>
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