On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Mateusz Lapsa wrote: > Hello. > I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. > Unfortunatelly there some problems. > After instaling and configuring it it isn't responding for any traffic, > which is beeing sent to sl0 device. Strange. However when I start it > manualy by sending up command to fifo it works fine. > Why? > What could be the reason? > I'd like to use my machine as a proxy to dial-up connection. It has one > ethernet card. > > Eventualy could anybody send me default /etc/init.d/network file? > Perheaps this is the place where I messed up. > >
The /etc/init.d/network file really doesn't have anything to do with diald. It should be configured to setup the configuration of the Ethernet network interface. There is nothing in there that should relate to diald. Your description doesn't seem to indicate that you're having an Ethernet configuration problem. Diald should automatically dial your ISP through your modem when you send IP traffic from your machine. It should do this with no other user action. It should act exactly like it does using 'dctrl', but you shouldn't have to take any action other than telnetting, ftping or web browsing. So, I would surmise that you haven't quite got it installed correctly. My advice would be to get the 'Dial-On-Demand mini-HOWTO' found at various places and retrace your steps on the installation. There is also some useful info in /usr/doc/diald, but I think I pretty much followed the mini-HOWTO. It actually sounds like you have a lot of it working, it will dial and connect correctly upon command, so it shouldn't be too bad figuring it out.
