I was the same problem.
Read the man pages for the new pppd. It includes dial on demand features
that make colision whith diald.
Pedro
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Mario Fabiano wrote:
> I have switched from diald16-0.16.5a-2.i386.rpm to
> diald-0.99.1-2.i386.rpm on a Redhat 6.2 box.
>
> I have some problems:
>
> 1. No more dialdc
> -----------------
> On the previous release there was the dialdc program which I used to
> connect from a cron command. How can I get the same result?
>
> 2. The program dctrl does not get the default value
> ---------------------------------------------------
> According to the manual page it should use the default value
> /etc/diald/diald.ctl, but it does not work. To get it working one must
> connect explicitly specifing the queue.
> Any suggestions?
>
> 3. Some connections never end due to odd packets
> ------------------------------------------------
> On some connections appear igmp packets, that are sent every 30 seconds.
> I don't know where these packets come from. There is a way to tell diald
> to ignore igmp packets or to avoid this kind of traffic?
> BTW IGMP stands for Internet Group Management Protocol (rfc 1122).
> I had the problem with the previous release of diald as well.
>
> 4. Some connections are kept after the end
> ------------------------------------------
> When I get some sites like 64.28.67.57 (images.slashdot.org), the
> traffic survives also after I have closed Netscape. The packets continue
> to be exchanged endlessly, so that there is no way to have the session
> closed by diald for timeout.
> I had the problem with the previous release of diald as well.
>
> --
> Mario
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