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[Anthony.Schlemmer@xxxxxxx (Anthony Schlemmer)]

Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> 
> Kenneth,
> 
> I have something working now.  I have learned that diald and chat are both four
> letter words.  I have diald activating when I attempt to hit an outside site with
> something like a traceroute by name (I think that worked).  I couldn't for the
> life of me figure out how to get the chat working on Earthlink/Sprint.  I finally
> did this.  BTW, I called sprint tech support and they did have minimal Linux
> support.  They get a big ataboy from me for that.  The guy didn't have all the
> answers I was looking for, but he did have a little script that helped.
> 
> Any how, I now have diald activating a ppp.chat script.  Unfortunately it doesn't
> connect every time.  It can take as many as five trys.  The errors are different
> ever time it fails.  I will look at this when I have had some sleep.  What I did
> was to copy over the /usr/doc/packages/diald/config/diald.config and diald.defs
> to /etc  I then added
> 
> -m ppp
> local 10.10.10.1
> remote 10.10.10.10
> dynamic
> connect /etc/ppp/ppp-up
> 
> to diald.conf.
> 
> I started the daemon like this: diald /dev/modem defaultroute
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Steve

I took the supplied sample diald.conf file from
/usr/doc/packages/diald/config and added the following lines to the end
of it. I works pretty reliably. Because all of the necessary arguments
are in my systems's "/etc/diald.conf" file, I run diald with no runtime
arguments at all. This stuff should be fairly boilerplate expect for the
"ip-up" and "ip-down" stuff. I use diald on my gateway/firewall system
for my home network and have some basic firewall and IP Masquerading
stuff setup.

fifo /var/run/diald.ctl
mode ppp
connect "/bin/sh /etc/ppp/connect"
device /dev/ttyS1
speed 115200
modem
lock
crtscts
local 127.0.0.2
remote 127.0.0.3
dynamic
defaultroute
retry-count 10
redial-timeout 15
first-packet-timeout 300
connect-timeout 120
two-way
ip-up /etc/ppp/firewall.rules
ip-down /etc/ppp/firewall.reset

If you're having problems generally with the login stuff and you're
using "chat" in your connect script, try running "chat" with the "-v"
argument which causes verbose output to be sent to the "syslogd"
process. You can look at the output in the /var/log/messages file.

Tony


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