[NTLUG:Discuss] ppp dialer from console

[George E. Lass]

I just installed diald on a friend's network, and it works
like a champ.  I used one of the sample configuration files found
in the man page for diald-examples almost verbatum:

A Leaf Node with Dynamic Local Address using PPP

Let us again complicate matters for ourselves. Assume now
that not only do you not know the remote address you will
get connected to, but that the remote site might assign you
a different local address each time you connect.
<snip>

mode ppp
connect /etc/diald/connect  <---- I put my chat script here
device /dev/ttyS1
speed 115200
modem
lock
crtscts
local 192.168.0.1           <---- I put an unused address on my local
net here
remote 192.168.0.2          <---- I put one of the many terminal servers
from my ISP here
dynamic
defaultroute
include /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter

  
Good Luck

George


Brian wrote:
> 
> Rick--
> 
> Have you looked at the /var/log/messages log to watch the authentication
> sequence?   That's probably a good first step. I use "diald" as my ppp
> dialer...it has a nice Tk interface called dctrl that allows you to
> monitor the connection, control the daemon, etc.  I simply use the chat
> script I wrote for the ppp scripts as the same script called by diald.
> 
>   --Brian
> 
> Rick Perry wrote:
> 
> >  Someone please tell me how to make a ppp dialer work from my
> > console...would be nice to be able to do it without 19 different

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