Hi,
All works really great now.
Thank you for all the persons who helped me.
If other persons want some help with diald,
please e-mail me.
Michel.
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Michel Szybist
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:02:29 Ed Doolittle wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Michel Szybist wrote:
>
>> All works *very* fine, except one thing: when an application has to
>> bring the modem line up (when SRV1 is not yet connected to the
>> Internet), diald dials the provider, opens the connection but seems to
>> loose the packets which opened the connection: the application does not
>> receive any answer.
>
>> - is there a workaround ?
>
>As root, do "echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr". Put that command
>into one of your startup scripts (rc.local).
>
>> - any tips ? some more masqerading ?
>> - will it be the same with ISDN ?
>> - is this a problem of parameters with diald ?
>> - a problem of time-out with diald ?
>
>No, the packets that bring up the link have the wrong return address
>(inevitable if you are assigned your IP address dynamically).
>
>An alternative way of handling this is to ensure that the net only comes
>up on a name resolution request. Arranging that is more complicated, but
>can be more rewarding under certain circumstances.
>
>Ed
>
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>Ed Doolittle <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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