Bug#5014: diald won't do what I want
Raul Miller:
> moth >I'd like to configure diald so that it brings up the line at a certain
> moth >time on certain days (which I can do easily using cron and telnet), and
> moth >then leave the line up until the phone connection dies, for whatever
> moth >reason.
> moth >
> moth >Unfortunately, I can't get this behavior. In spite of what the
> moth >documentation says, neither impulse or two-way is suitable for this
> moth >task. Neither of them prevents the phone from being redialed, unless
> moth >I've configured diald to forcibly hang up the phone.
Christoph Lameter:
> You can get that behavior with the regular ppp package.
> Schedule a call to "pon" at the times you want the link to come up. No
> need for diald. Schedule poff to switch it off. If the line dies the link
> will stay down (can be changed by putting the "persist" option in )
Except that I also want diald's behavior of bringing the line back up
if there's activity. The problem is that diald is bringing the line
back up when there's been no activity for hours.
[I don't really want the semantics of two-way -- I tried it only
because I was trying to be thorough.]
In other words, what I want is diald's normal behavior, except I don't
want it to forcibly bring the line down for inactivity. [Aside: I
also tried having the disconnect script sleep until ppp goes away, and
that didn't do anything useful either.]
Of course, from what I understand after reading the documentation,
what I want is completely within spec for what diald is supposed to be
capable of. The impulse option, with a very large impulse, should do
what I want.
--
Raul
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