30 Aug
2001
30 Aug
'01
12:46 a.m.
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.