Hi all: I have the following problem which makes diald difficult to use. I have a straight forward installation of debian with options (diald,ppp) file adjusted to reflect my setup. Whenever I fire a network needy application (like telnet, ftp) diald immediately wakes up and sets up the connection. However the utility that woke up diald simply hangs. Furthermore, any other session started soon after a connection is established goes through. Let me explain this with a little example
command: telnet xxxx actions: (1) telnet fires up resolves host addresses and tries to connect (2) diald wakesup and makes connection (3) connection is setup but telnet still hanging Suppose I start another telnet at this time to same address the second one will go though while the first one is still hanging. Furthermore, if diald disconnect phone line due to inactivity then all running tools will hang even if diald wakes up and reestablishes the connection immediately. I suspect some routing problem but cannot figure out how to fix it. Here is some config info. for diald mode ppp fifo xxxx accounting-log xxxx baud 57600 modem crtscts defaultroute connect "chat -f chatscript" local 127.0.0.3 remote <real-ip-address-of-netblazer> dynamic device is ttyS1 (not cua1) The options file of pppd is empty kernel 2.0.x with slip, cslip and ppp Please help. If I can help you with any debug output please let me know. I can produce what you want and ship it to you. (I had asked this question to Eric, the author of diald, but so far I have not received any response. Then again, the problem started only after I switched from a very old slackware to debian 1.2 recently) Thanks Ramesh