On 18 Dec 1998, Jeff Myers writes:
> OK, I'm really confused now! I thought diald was required by
> linuxconf when using the dialout module for demand dial.
Hmmm. OK. I think I can see where the confusion came from. I was
less clear than I thought!
Strictly speaking, you're correct: the Linuxconf dialout module does
know how to *use* diald, and needs it for demand dialling. However,
Linuxconf doesn't (to my knowledge let you *configure* diald.
Linuxconf lets you *configure* the pppd idle timeout value. Harry has
been asking about that timeout setting, in the relevant Linuxconf
menu, here on the list. But (as far as I can see from the posted log
file excerpt) that pppd parameter is not relevant to Harry's unwanted
disconnects; diald is causing them, not pppd itself detecting idle
time. And configuring diald is done by hand, Linuxconf doesn't know
how to do that.
Reading the 1.13r10 source code file modules/dialout/diald.cc,
Linuxconf doesn't seem to me to do anything relevant to diald idle
timeouts itself. It apparently uses the normal
/usr/lib/diald/standard.filter diald ruleset file.
So it is unclear why Harry's diald is asking pppd to disconnect. The
fault (from what I can see) seems to be more diald than pppd related,
hence my suggestion to carefully recheck all the diald configuration
stuff. Maybe Harry modified his /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter, for
instance??
I could be all wrong (it's been known to happen <grin>). But until
someone else who knows more about the innards of Linuxconf/pppd/diald
interaction steps in to help, my suspect for the cause of the unwanted
disconnects is still diald configuration issues, and so my suggestion
is to recheck that aspect of the setup very carefully.
Jonathan
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