>>>>> On Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:19:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) >>>>> said: > Does anyone know how to get diald to work? I'm almost there; I can get it to > do it's thing, dial, connect to my ISP, start sending data, but after about > 30 seconds, diald kills pppd, and reports that it has timed out waiting for > ppp to connect. :/ Since I was in the middle of receiving an html document > from the web, I'd say it's safe to assume that pppd was already connected. > Anyone got any ideas how I can cure this VERY annoying problem?
Take a look at /etc/ppp/options. Almost everything should be commented out--when using diald, it seems to work best if ppp gets its options straight from diald. I was having a similar problem, and it turned out my ppp options file had a "connect" line in it that was causing two chats to be running at once, fighting over the line. Also, use the "defaultroute" option if you haven't already turned that on. The default diald options file seems to be set up for something like an ISDN connection, where setting up the connection only takes a couple of seconds. I changed all the timeouts to be 5 - 10 minutes, and that seems to work well. If those simple fixes don't help, turning on debugging for all the pieces involved (pppd: debug 1 and kdebug 1, chat: -v, diald: debug -1). This generates quite a pile of output, but I found it very helpful in getting diald to work. Now, except for some annoying intermittent problems with chat, diald is working perfectly, and in combination with ip masquerade, I've got two Macs and a Pentium Pro happily sharing one modem. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
