Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 John Hasler wrote: > Pollywog writes: >> If the problems continue, I will try to find out about doing diald's job >> with pppd. > > Pppd can demand dial (if the kernel has the right patch) but it cannot do > any filtering. I don't know if the demand dial patch is in the 2.2 kernels

Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > If the problems continue, I will try to find out about doing diald's job > with pppd. Pppd can demand dial (if the kernel has the right patch) but it cannot do any filtering. I don't know if the demand dial patch is in the 2.2 kernels or not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > At any rate this warning is just a warning that the interface will be going > away. It > works just fine. The sl0: transmit timed out is a little scary though. Don't > know what > to say about that one. > Diald is working now, but on two occasions since la

Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I too got the diald message but no the sl0 message. I've been poking around on the kernel mailing lists and it appears that Alexey, the guy who's been writing much of the new networking code (all?) wants people to use SOCK_RAW instead of SOCK_PACKET (ergo the "obsolete" messages). The only drawn

Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14-May-99 Michael Fox wrote: > I am guessing sl0: means SLIP device? Yes, that is what diald uses to fool the machine into thinking it is connected to the Internet while it is not connected, I believe. diald connected me just fine just now, but a while ago, it would not, and I had to use PPP.

Re: diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Michael Fox
I am guessing sl0: means SLIP device? -Original Message- From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user list Date: Friday, 14 May 1999 16:44 Subject: diald and kernel 2.2.5 >I installed kernel 2.2.5 on Slink, and I have a problem with diald but not >with pppd. > &

diald and kernel 2.2.5

1999-05-14 Thread Pollywog
I installed kernel 2.2.5 on Slink, and I have a problem with diald but not with pppd. This is from my syslog: diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface sl0: transmit timed out, bad line quality? It does work most of the time, but not always. Also, even thou