Bug#5014: diald won't do what I want

[Giuseppe Vacanti <gv@deselby.xs4all.nl>]

Raul says:

> What I want is diald to:
> 
> (a) bring up the line if it's needed
> (b) guarantee that the line will be brought back up if there's
>     been recent activity, and
> (c) leave the line up until external factors take it down.
> 
> In other words, I "never" want diald to hang up the phone.
> 
> But, I can't just use ppp, because it won't demand dial.
> 
> (Actually, it's fine for diald to hang up the phone if it's not used
> for an extremely long period of time -- say, after a whole day of
> inactivity.  However, it's important to me that there be a
> significant period of time where if the phone is hung up, diald
> won't redial.  From reading the documentation, the "impulse"
> option should do exactly what I want.)

I'm not sure I really understand what you want to do.

+ diald brings up the line if needed. This works (right?).
+ once the line is up, it should stay up for, say, at least 10 hours.
  impulse 36000,10
  in your options files should do it.
+ if during those 10 hours the other side hangs up you want diald to redial
  (right?). I would agree that from the man page it isn't completely clear 
  that it would try to bring the line back up.

If I understand this right, and if you still think that it doesn't work, could you
send me your diald.options file so I can verify this behavior and possibly file
a bug report with the author of the package?

Thanks,

Giuseppe



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