Topic: Diald phantom

[Edward]

Diald seems to want keep the link up even if no one is using the www.

We have a network of seventeen computers (Mac Windows and two RHL6.2).  We are connectected over a dial up connection (leased line cable and ISDN all cost about $900/mo in Indonesia).  Yesterday I noticed that the modem link was up, but no one was actually sitting behind a computer.  I checked all the console and no one had any network apps running.  I went back to the e-smith and %killall pppd which brought the link down, but diald tried to re-establish the link.

Where should I start looking to resolve this?

[robert]

When you configured your dial-up connection after installation, what did you choose for 'connection duration' (or something like that)? Not 'continuous' I assume? That would have diald keeping the link up all the time. Anything useful in /var/log/messages? If not, you could try editing the template for diald.conf to include the line . For editing the template, use the method detailed at http://www.e-smith.org/content/custom. Said template is in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/diald.conf. By the way, I think this is an advanced issue. Anything to do with diald or pppd can be so perplexing that it's bound to be advanced You may need to review and edit /etc/diald.filter.