I had no trouble with diald. The advantage of using it, over cron, is that the itnerface appears to be there at all times, even if it is not active.
On 29-Aug-01 MJ Ray wrote:
Raphael Mankin raph@panache.demon.co.uk writes:
diald lets you control *when* connections are made. It also provides som filtering to prevent the connection from being raised for various classes of traffic. If you replace 'anyreason' by 'little reason', however, I agree with you.
I think all the filtering and timing can be controlled by cron, connection scripts and ipchains/iptables with pppd. It's not such a one-stop-shop, but it is more widely used and stabler, in my experience. I just remember diald being hell to get working. I'm not sure it ever did work correctly for me. Not used it again since, so maybe they've updated it.