hi rajiv, where did you get the new pppd? can you please tell where to download it. thanks! gardo Rajiv Ghai wrote: >--------------------------------------------------- >Hi Ken, >I am new to diald and to this mailing list but reading through all the >recent mail it seems Redhat 6.0 and diald don't exactly work together. I >tried diald using the latest rpm version and it gives all sorts of >problems, including the process dying out for no reason. However, I tried >using the latest pppd on Redhat 6.0 which has demand dialing. I just >inserted the word "demand" in my existing ppp options file and viola it >worked the first time. There were some additional options which you may >need depending on how the IP addresses are allocated by your ISP and the >timeout durations but they are explained in the new pppd man page. As I >only had a day to try it out I have not found any bugs to report. Only >minor problem is that when I first fire up pppd, it connects to my ISP. I >then wait for it to time out, after which it waits for a demand from you. >Try a telnet and it fires up again ! >Has anyone else given it a try or have any comments about this approach? >Hope it helps. >Regards >Rajiv > __________________________________________________________ Get your FREE private multi-lingual web e-mail @ http://www.ParsMail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
