Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?
Thanks for your response!
> From: Jens B. Jorgensen <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>
> To: Kevin Traas <ktraas@uniserve.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Is there a Diald Guru in the House?
> Date: Wednesday, January 08, 1997 7:18 AM
>
> Kevin Traas wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get Diald cofigured on my Linux 1.2.1 box and am running
into
> > some problems I'm hoping you can help me with.....
> >
> > Here's what I'm experiencing:
> >
> > I've got debugging turned on and from "/var/log/messages" I'm finding
the
> > following: (I'm happy with the first two lines; however, I think the
> > following two are a problem....>
> >
> > local IP address a.b.c.y
> > remote IP address a.b.c.z
> > ppp not replacing existing default route to sl0[a.b.c.z]
>
> As the others who posted responses to this have said:
> the documentation that indicates a number of options you
> should not use in your ppp options file. Diald passes these options
> itself. Here's an excerpt from the diald(8) man page:
>
> When diald is being used in PPP mode extra options can b
> passed on to pppd by specifying them after a "--" on the
> command line. This should not normally be necessary as
> default options can be placed into the /etc/ppp/options
> file. But, if you need to run multiple instances of pppd
> with different options then you will have to make use of
> this ability. Note that some pppd options should not be
> specified, not even in the /etc/ppp/options file, because
> they will interfere with the proper operation of diald.
> In particular you should not specify the tty device, the
> baud rate, nor any of the options crtscts, xonxoff,
> -crtscts, defaultroute, lock, netmask, -detach, modem,
> local, mtu and proxyarp. Use the equivalent diald options
> to control these pppd settings.
Okay. Thanks for the info. I've checked things out and I don't have any
of these options specified in the /etc/ppp/options file. Yet things still
aren't working.
> > Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
>
> Are you using proxy-arp? If you don't have an ethernet connection
> on your machine you don't need this.
I was trying to; however, whenever it is enabled, I get the above error
message in /var/log/messages. And, yes, I do have an ethernet connection.
This box is acting as a router between my ISP and my LAN.
> > I've got ppp configured as per the "ppp-HOWTO". Everything is working
well
> > there, so I'm pretty sure all of my problems are related to "Diald"
> > configuration.
> >
> > On the diald front, everything pretty much follows the default settings
> > (except for "local", "remote", and "connect" in
/etc/diald/diald.options).
> > The "connect" string is set to run "/etc/ppp/scripts/ppp-up" which is
the
> > same script I've successfully used to establish a ppp connection.
> >
> > If you want to see my various scripts and conf/option files, please
e-mail
> > me directly and I'll send them to you.
> >
> > TIA for your help or any tips you can give me,
Kevin Traas
Systems Analyst
Edmondson Roper
Chilliwack, BC, Canada
http://users.uniserve.com/~erca
System Administrator
ValleyNet (a CN operated by the Fraser
Valley Community Information Society)
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