diald and on demand dialing

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Juan Lupion wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that good old 'diald' is not being included in any package
> repository.  Is it because there is another way of doing on-demand
> dialing for a 
> PPP connection that I am not aware of? 

Yes.

> On the same subject, can the standard PPP dialers included in FC1
> reestablish 
> the link if it goes down? 

Yes. redhat-config-network has options for this. pppd has had on-demand dialing
for a long time. I will admit however I have had much better success with
diald than I ever had with pppd's on demand functions. It might be better
today though since I have not used an on demand dialup connection in 2 or 3
years.

HTH,

...........Tom