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Re: Demand Dialing for ppd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Longyear)
Wed May 24 17:08:49 1995
From: longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear)
To: dean@franklin.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 12:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9505232015.AA03534@ss5mth17.franklin> from "Dean G A Johnson" at May 23, 95 04:15:23 pm
> Could someone out there please direct me to documentation that would
> describe how to setup of pppd for demand dialing?
The program is called 'diald'. It is on sunsite.unc.edu in the
/pub/Linux/system/Networking/serial directory.
Instructions should be included with the source. (They were when I
last looked at it.)
One thing, however. You must generate the kernel to support SLIP. This
is in addition to the PPP support if you wish to do demand dial with
PPP.
The reason is that the PPP support is split between the kernel driver
and the daemon. There is no daemon with SLIP. The PPP daemon is not
started until it is needed to bring up the link, so the link is
configured as a SLIP device while it is idle. When the first frame is
received to go out, the pppd process is started and the route is
redefined to be PPP.
There is a separate mail list for diald. It is at
linux-diald@vger.rutgers.edu and may be joined by sending mail to
majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with 'subscribe linux-diald' as the text.
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Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com
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