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>
> Hello,
>
> I have a machine that was originally configured with RedHat 5.1, recently
> upgraded to RedHat 6.0, still using the original diald that was installed.
> Not sure what version, as diald doesn't seem to have a --version flag, or
> print the version in any of its log files.
>
> I've run into two problems since upgrading to RH6.0:
>
> 1. Starting the diald daemon in my /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99local startup
> script, as I'm accustomed, is pointless: the diald daemon quietly
> disappears from the process list at some point, without warning.
>
> 2. Even when diald is running (I've now set up a cron job to check
> for diald, and if it vanished, start it again), idle sessions seem
> to be killed. For instance, if I telnet out to someplace and then
> leave the window idle for 10 to 15 minutes, chances are that when I
> start typing into that window, it will tell me that the connection
> was lost, and I'll have to telnet in again.
>
> Any ideas as to what might be happening here and how to fix it? If
> there is interest, I will summarize privately-received responses to
> the mailing list.
>
I also ran into your problem #1 above when switching from a 2.0.x to
a 2.2.x Linux kernel. (I suspect #2 is a related problem that I just
didn't notice.) Others have reported similar situations.
The fix is simple: upgrade to the newest Diald (0.99). I got it from:
http://diald.unix.ch/
You will need to compile it from source. You may need to rebuild
the kernel to include ethertap support. I did it as a module and
included the following in conf.modules:
alias tap0 ethertap
You may need to make a character special device /dev/tap0 with major
number 36, minor number 16 using the mknod command:
mknod /dev/tap0 c 36 16
(I think that's the right syntax.)
With this, it works great!
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Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
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