There is. it is a dial-on-demand demon called called diald. It includes a
versatile "connect" shell script for your PPP chat stuff (you just need
to plug in your ISP's number and your login sequence) and a sample
configuration file that allows you to control as precisely what you like
exactly what kind of IP packets will cause the link to go up and down.
It's what I've been using for the last year and a half and I've had no
problems with it. It's included in your SuSE distribution.
As installed by YaST, it will use the suseppp chat script instead which
works fine, but it is quite easy to plug in the connect shell script
instead if you want to.
The only thing you are likely to want to change in the diald configuration
file is to get it to ignore netbios packets if you have samba support
enabled.
Ralph
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
>
> Why is it that everyone uses wvdial to connect to the net? I would think
> that by now there should be an easier way to Linux ppp working. This is
> one thing that has really surprised me.
>
> Aaron
>
> dizzy wrote:
> >
> > Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> >
> > > Is it safest to do the recompile through the command line only? I didn't
> > > think about this before, but will it make a difference that I compiled
> > > through x windows?
> > >
> > > Aaron
> >
> > If you're using 5.3 ppp is built into the kernel as is firewall and
> > masquerading
> > You have to make sure you have ppp installed with the installion though,
> > check in yast/install upgrade packages that you have it installed.
> > If you'd like an easy way to connect use wvdial as recommended on this list.
> >
> > See my page for a link to wvdial. That should get you up and running with
> > ppp
> > rob
> > Linux Home page http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm
>
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