RE: diald slow to be useful...

Hi,

I'm using diald 0.99.4 on a Redhat 7.2 system.

It works perfectly without any patches or messing about, all I've done
is tweak some rules to control how it connects.
It's set to work 'on demand' most of the time, plus a couple of sessions
locked on each day.

If I bring the connection up by starting Internet Explorer on a windows
machine, it's online and working in a few seconds. 

I'm using iptables for both NAT & firewall on the machine with diald,
and I've got both ip_dynaddr and routingf enabled.


I seem to remember some time ago (Redhat 5.x ???) that the browser
needed restarting after allowing time for the link to come up, but that
is not
needed with the current setup. I believe that problem was down to how
the kernel routing works & is not due to diald - the only way round it
is a newer kernel.


If you want better control of the connection, try dialmon - I've also
got this on the Windows box & it shows the state of the Diald
connection, amount of traffic, and allows the connection to be forced up
or down if required.


Regards,

Robert Jenkins.