Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. wrote:
> Mailing Lists wrote:
> >
> > 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!
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
>
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