Topic: Why use diald?

[Tom]

I am one of those poor souls who still has to use dialup to get connected to the Internet .  Who says 56K is slow?

I have just installed e-smith 4.1.2.  Much to my surprise, diald is being used to establish ppp connections.  I would have no problems with it, however it does not work.  (I have never been able to make diald work myself).

I believe demand dialing has been supported in pppd since 2.3.?.  It is certainly an ability in 2.4.  Is there a reason that diald is used on e-smith servers?

The message below is in the messages file
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pppd[1691]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
kernel: registered device ppp0
diald[1570]: pppd startup timed out.  Check your pppd options.  Killing pppd.
diald[1570]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
pppd[1691]: Terminating on signal 2
pppd[1691]: Exit.
---

Disabling diald and using "ifup ppp0" works fine.  As much as I despise diald, I would like to see if I can get it working.  Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanks in advance,
Tom

[Tom]

Strangely enough I figured it out!  Removing "noauth" from the ppp-options line in diald.conf seems to make a difference.

If you don't mind, I would still like to know why diald is used over pppd?  Is it due to more options?

Thanks,
Tom