diald and dctrl

[Richard Sharman <rsharman@magmacom.com>]

Richard Morin writes:
 > Hi Folks, 
 > Does anyone know what the "forcing timeout" box means in dctrl?  dctrl
 > doesn't run every time, but when it does, it has a countdown going on in
 > the "forcing timeout" box.  To me, this means it is forcing the link down,
 > but how do I stop it from doing this?
 > 
I don't think it means that.   For me, it couuts down from 23:xx:xx,
and never seems to have any affect.  

As far as I can tell,  and in my expeirience,  It is *not* forcing the
link down,   and I strongly suggest you *don't do anything about it*!!!

I checked the documentation,  but couldn't find out what it is meant
for.  I checked the code and still wasn't much the wiser!  I guessed
it might have something to do with the "restrict" fields whereby you
can have different rules at different times of the day,  so I addded
one but id didn't seem to change things.


(diald is a neat program which "dials on demand",  bringing up a link
to the outside world when there is traffic for it.  Very nice if
you're being charged for online time!)

Richard