[Sussex] ?utomated dial up

[Iain Stevenson]

diald worked very well for me too - until I got ADSL.  I vaguely being 
rules in it that you can use to set protocol specific handling.  This is 
what I had in diald,conf

mode ppp
fifo /etc/ppp/diald.fifo
connect /etc/ppp/chat_script.diald
#disconnect "chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat_disconnect_script
device /dev/modem
speed 115200
modem
demasq
lock
crtscts
local   192.168.1.254
remote  192.168.0.1
dynamic
defaultroute
redial-timeout 5
#debug 1
include /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter

.. looks like that "standard.filter" is where the rules go ...

  Iain



--On Monday, May 17, 2004 4:56 pm +0100 Scott James <scott at coldcustard.org> 
wrote:

> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diald-HOWTO.html
>
> diald .. it sets up a virtual network connection then watches it, any
> trafic going down that connection is captured, a ppp link is established
> and the trafic rerouted.  It works amazingly well, so well in fact I
> would caution you against using it ;-)
>
> The problem is that linux is a very network aware OS, you would be
> suprised how many things kick off a network request. I tried to set it
> up so that outbound mail was held in a queue and only forced out when
> the network was activated for a more pressing reason.  The problem was
> that a reverse DNS lookup was issued for my mail, and try as I might I
> could not coax sendmail (it was a while ago) to not do this.  There were
> lots of other occasions where the network was activated for seeminly
> random reasons.
>