I too have had difficulty with ppp and diald since upgrading. With the help of "Linux The Complete Reference" I have edited my network and ppp scripts so that pon now connects and sets up my route correctly, and I can connect to the W95 machine on my lan. However, diald does not make a connection. It dials, connects for about 30 seconds, then the line disconnects.
I too was wondering if pon could be called by diald, since pon does work. Has anyone done this successfully? Thanks, Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- > From: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Henrique Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: REPOST: Diald routing (Help!) > Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 6:44 AM > > > > Diald is already dialing when it should but the routing table is not > > > being updated. > > I've had the same problem. Somewhere (either a HOWTO or a Linux Journal article) I > found advice about setting the routing manually. This is what I'm doing now. > > In /etc/ppp/ip-up (the script) I put a > route del default > route add default $1 > in just above the run-parts line. This forces the default route to be made. > > Similarly, in /etc/ppp/ip-down I do a > route del default > route add default gw 207.140.8.1 metric 1 > also just before the run-parts command (perhaps that should be below it). > 207.140.8.1 is just my ISP's gateway IP number. > > Once doing this, this cleared up all of my diald routing problems. > > > > Is there any problem with diald that prevents it from working out of the > > > box with Debian? Im using the "pon" command as the dialer in > > > diald.options. > > I found that using "pon" in /etc/diald/diald.options caused the link to disconnect > after 30-60 seconds or so. I had to adopt a more conventional script which uses just > chat and which doesn't call pppd. > > But I agree. So many people rely on diald it should work more seamlessly with > pppd. This is an area which many people want to use, but one which is frustrating for > newbies (and even semi-newbies like myself;-). > > -- > Regards, |Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org > . | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ > Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ > Tech. Coord./Teacher | ...because lockups are for convicts... > |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: > http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null