On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> 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.
The confusion arises from the fact that Linuxconf does half of the job. It
configures diald so it will dialout, but does not configure the session
parameter in standard.filters. This would be needed to tune 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.
The ppp idle time is not used for on demand dialing because diald provides
a more sophisticated "per protocol" configuration.
> 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.
The original poster claims that all was working fine prior to linuxconf
1.13r8. As far as I know, nothing was changed in this area. I suggest he
downgrade to a previous linuxconf release to check if diald is working as
expected and then upgrade again to the latest linuxconf to see if anything
has changed.
Fiddling in standard.filters is the solution. A configuration tool for
that would be useful I guess.
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