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Title: Dial on request.
Post by: Dave Aldridge on April 19, 2000, 10:59:09 PM

Rather than have the modem dial on demand I would like to know how to have the modem dial on request and not hang up untill I request a disconnect.
The reason being that our ISP will allow connections up to 12 hours and dial on demand takes to much time to reconnect when the connection is dropped.

Dave

Title: RE: Dial on request.
Post by: Colin Mattoon on April 19, 2000, 11:26:58 PM

As an alternative (that wouldn't fundamentally alter anything), you could simply change some of the values in diald/standard.filter.  If you set everything for 7200 seconds, it will probably not hangup very often.

Title: RE: Dial on request.
Post by: Charlie Brady on April 20, 2000, 02:52:22 PM

Dave Aldridge wrote:

> Rather than have the modem dial on demand I would like to know
> how to have the modem dial on request and not hang up untill I
> request a disconnect. The reason being that our ISP will allow
> connections up to 12 hours and dial on demand takes to much
> time to reconnect when the connection is dropped.

E-smith version 3 doesn't have any standard options except dial-on-demand. However by using the e-smith customisation documentation at http://www.e-smith.org/custom and the diald documentation (on-line on your server at /usr/doc/diald*) then
you can customise the documentation. Look at the "up", "down" and "restrict" directives for instance. You can also set up
a control fifo, then use cron to write control commands into it.

E-smith version 4 (coming very soon) has many more options for control of the modem linux. Included is an option to make the connection during business hours on weekdays. There is also a
diald control fifo as standard, so you can control the link using cron in any pattern you need.

Regards

Charlie