Topic: Dial on Reuqest - HOW?

[Michael]

I'm wanting to find out how to setup Dial on Request.

Also I had problems with the Server-Manager when I installed e-smith. When I went throught the configuration, I changed a couple of things, mainly setting when to make the modem dial. After the configuration finished, I noticed I couldn't access the server-manager. When I investigated further, I found in the Apache config file, lines were added with no host and just a port. eg :443

If anyone could help, please let me know

[robert]

Michael wrote:
>
> I'm wanting to find out how to setup Dial on Request.

I believe there's a contributed howto about this.
>
> Also I had problems with the Server-Manager when I installed
> e-smith. When I went throught the configuration, I changed a
> couple of things, mainly setting when to make the modem dial.
> After the configuration finished, I noticed I couldn't access
> the server-manager. When I investigated further, I found in
> the Apache config file, lines were added with no host and
> just a port. eg :443
>
Have a look at this post from and old (and very long) thread.
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=3160.msg10706#msg10706
It looks like the 'ip-change' event ran with an empty argument/ with an argument of [blank]. We of the other thread don't know why this happened, or how to remedy it. But it may be that e-smith background simply couldn't keep up with diald, because it keeps dialling every ten seconds. On that assumption, you could try to stop diald and then do an ip-change to 192.168.65.17 (look in the logs for the correct syntax of such a command), or maybe you could configure diald to use exponentially growing dialling intervals (try once, try after 10 secs, try after 20, try after 40, etc.). Hope this helps.

[Michael]

Robert, thankyou for your help.
I re-setup my e-smith machine and this time setting the configuration to 'never' on the modem setup. As you suggested, I installed Dialmon. Its up and running now, although, I am having slight problems with keeping a connection for as long as my ISP gives me. I've set it to force, so it's a wait and see if this works.