diald and on demand dialing

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Thu Dec 4 00:16:35 UTC 2003


At 08:10 12/3/2003, you wrote:
>I've noticed that good old 'diald' is not being included in any package
>repository.  Is it because there is another way of doing on-demand
>dialing for a PPP connection that I am not aware of?

Yes. "pppd demand call myisp" will establish the link on demand. See "man 
pppd" for lots of other details.

>On the same subject, can the standard PPP dialers included in FC1
>restablish the link if it goes down?

Now you want "pppd demand persist call myisp". Again, see man page for much 
more info.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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