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Re: repeated error



http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~feldt/sluugs/meeting_notes/1997/aug/configppp.html
seems dead.

if anyone gets this to work, please tell me how it's done. diald is
yucky...

Peter L. Peres wrote:

> This has to do with auto loading modules (ppp.o), and the capacity of
> kerneld to execute an action before that. I don't know how exactly it is
> done, I will look in dejanews fot that and let you know. I ran into a
> message that described such a setup. It works for sure. As I remember it,
> ppp.o is a module, with dialup using the scripts it calls by itself. pppd
> is passed options to time out the link. To dial, a packet is sent to the
> ppp iface. kerneld loads the module and this causes dialling. When the
> link is not used, pppd times out and hags up. Then kerneld notices that it
> is not running, and removes the module. The dialing is controlled by what
> is sent to the iface by the routing. But I may be wrong
> 
> ...later
> Go to altavista, and enter this for query: Linux PPP autodial. The 1st
> doc you get is the one you want, but there is more.
> 
> The most relevant URL is:
> 
> http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~feldt/sluugs/meeting_notes/1997/aug/configppp.html
> 
> I post this to the list, as it might interest a lot of people who are
> tangled in the complications of the diald hack.
> 
> regards,
>         Peter

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