We use diald straighht out of the rpm, and it installed & started working. It
controls ppp0. See if any of this info helps.
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[root@firewall /root]# cat /etc/diald.conf
# See /usr/doc/diald-config*/README for information how to customize diald.
lock
mode ppp
# /tmp/diald-<iface>.conf is constructed and then included from the diald
# command line.
[root@firewall /root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
PERSIST=yes
DEFROUTE=yes
ONBOOT=no
INITSTRING=ATZ
MODEMPORT=/dev/modem
LINESPEED=115200
ESCAPECHARS=no
DEFABORT=yes
HARDFLOWCTL=yes
DEVICE=ppp0
PPPOPTIONS=
DEBUG=no
PAPNAME=
REMIP=
IPADDR=
BOOTPROTO=none
MTU=1500
MRU=1500
DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=60
RETRYTIMEOUT=60
USERCTL=no
[root@firewall /root]#
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There's also diald scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but we never
changed any of them:
[root@firewall /root]# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*dial*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2773 Jan 18 23:45
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/diald-connect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 559 Jan 18 23:45
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/diald-down
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7104 Jan 18 23:45
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/diald-up
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2125 Jan 7 19:23
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/dialdcfg-ppp0
Perhaps diald did not install correctly???? What version do you have?
[root@firewall /root]# rpm -qv diald
diald-0.16-3
[root@firewall /root]# rpm -qv diald-config
diald-config-1.2.1-1
[root@firewall /root]#
Jim Rainville wrote:
>
> I'm getting closer and closer. I sortof have dial on demand working but not
> quite. I used the unmetered script from redhat contrib (Thanks Ed!). I set
> up ppp0 using netcfg. My problem now is whether or not to set ppp0 to
> activate at boot time. If I do it connects and everything runs fine but it
> never disconnects when idle. If I don't activate at startup it never dials
> out even when a client program makes tcp/ip requests. What am I doing wrong??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
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