In the diald.conf file you can configure it as down between 9-5. check the
documentation for exact details as to how to do time limited diald
paramaters.
David Lang
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:20:02 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Andrew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pppd with demand dialling
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>
> > I'm in the UK and I've got a box doing demand dialling for my windows clients.
> > Every week I get a log of all the connections made during the day, I've just
> > found a a call of 576minutes on peak rate (�30ish). I need to stop this
> > happening, I think it's down to something passing traffic such as an e-mail
> > client which hadn't died properly.
> >
> > Is there any way I can stop it connecting between the hours of say 9 til 5?
>
> I guess the simplest way to do this would be a cron-job that kills diald
> at 9 and restarts it at 5 :)
>
> As for all the sudden dialling, I've had problems with that too while
> running diald. It would just suddenly dial, and would not hang up after
> long times with no network activity (i was looking with tcpdump). Also, it
> is quite irritating that diald redials when you close netscape... I'm
> switching diald for masqdial (or whatever it is called), where you have
> a lot better control over what is actually going on. In case you weren't
> aware, there are masqdial clients for windows. If you don't know what this
> is, search on freshmeat.net :)
>
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