> 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? > > Thanks, > Tim
Adding 'connect-timeout' as an option to diald solved the problem at least for me: /usr/sbin/ppp-up ---------------- #!/bin/sh /bin/setserial /dev/cua1 spd_hi /usr/sbin/diald /dev/cua1 -m ppp local 127.0.0.3 \ remote 127.0.0.2 \ defaultroute modem crtscts dynamic connect-timeout 180 \ connect '/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat-ppp' \ fifo /var/adm/diald.ctl Adding the following entry at the end of /etc/diald.conf also helped me out making the line keep up contiguously: restrict * * * * * up -- Joonwoo Nam MAGNUMS(MAssachusetts Group for NUMerical analysis of Semiconductors) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMASS at Amherst e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / work:413-545-4762 / fax:413-545-4611 http://khushi.ecs.umass.edu/~nam
