Hi all,
Sorry if I am boring you, but unfortunately I answered a question
without posting the answer to the list, and I think that it could
interest some people out there.
So here is my answer to Col Wilson's question "can 'diald' be used with
'wvdial' instead of 'chat' ?
Hi Col
Am just at the beginning of using 'diald' and 'wvdial' but they seem to
work together with my "simple" settings (just calling one remote
site -my ISP):
First 'wvdial':
Just set it up "normally" as if you would use it manually from the
command line. When it works, you can edit a script ('ppp-up-wvdial' for
example) that just runs the command to start 'wvdial', for example
'wvdial my.isp &'. The ' &' at the end of the command is very important
as it lets run wvdial as a background process (thanks to Ryan Grange who
adviced me that without it, the script will time out after aprox. 1
minute and the link will be broken). When your 'ppp-up' script works,
edit a 'ppp-down-wvdial' script with this command 'killall wvdial' (it
speeks by itself ...).
Then 'diald':
In the first part of the 'diald.conf' file (where you have the 'device',
'speed', etc.) you'll need a connect line like this:
connect '/etc/ppp/ppp-up-wvdial' (this is your script to connect with
'wvdial')
and a disconnect line like this:
disconnect '/etc/ppp/ppp-down-wvdial' (idem).
For the rest, I use the 'diald'-files that came with the distribution I
use (SuSE 6.2 with 2.2.10 standard kernel) and (at the moment) a simple
'masquerade all outgoing traffic' rule (with no filtering, I will have
to set this up now), all with a Zyxel Elite 2864i external ISDN-TA (I
couldn't get it to work with 'chat', so I gave 'wvdial' a try...).
This combination works (almost) fine for me. I still get some "strange"
messages in /var/log/messages from 'diald' when it starts (those famous
with 'tap'-modules), but it works.
Hope this helps.
Lehmann Yann
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Objet : Diald and Wvdial
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