Bill Mote wrote:
>
> I have 16.5 up and running and it seems pretty stable. I've also been
> watching this list for a couple of weeks and people seem to be having a lot
> of problems with RH6.0 and diald 0.99. I'm running Mandrake 6.0 so I'd be
> one of those unfortunate people.
>
> Could someone summarize the benefits of using 0.99 vs. 16.5 and also
> *possibly* the common problems into 1-message?
>
The main benefit of diald 0.99.1 is that it works with 2.2.x kernels
and diald 0.16.5 doesn't. Diald 0.16.5 just goes AWOL every so often
with the new kernels. At least this was true for me and for several
others I have heard from.
People will have problems with diald for a variety of reasons, mainly
centered around the complexity of networking on general, the need to
recompile the kernel, to understand modules and modules.conf, and to
understand the new ethertap support the kernel provides and diald uses.
These are difficulties that can be overcome with a bit of effort.
Until I worked it all out, I ran diald 0.16 (as configured by SuSE)
and used a crontab job that checked for the diald process every 10
minutes and restarted it if it was missing. Life is much better now
with diald 0.99.1 running smooth as a Swiss watch.
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