[ale] Problems installing diald

[John M. Mills]

Greetings --
I have successfully installed pppd-2.1.2c(?) in my Linux 1.2.13 setup,
and it starts, picks up the G.I.T. dynamic IP assignment, and works fine.
Now I'm trying to bring up diald and having some problems.

I am basically following the [excellent] notes provided by Dave Snyder under
http://www.mindspring.com/~dsnyder which got me most of the way home for pppd.
I built diald-0.13 with no problems, just changing the LOCKDIR logical to
match pppd, and using an appropriate CFLAGS.  Installed OK, etc.

When I start diald, it looks OK except that running 'netstat -nr' doesn't
show any 'dummy' route.  'cat /proc/dev/net' shows the expected slots for
ppp and slip created for my kernel, and (as I said) pppd works fine by
itself.

Any attempt to actually bring up net service (say: 'ftp ftp.cc.gatech.edu')
fails to identify a host.  There is no attempt (so far as I can see) by
diald to start pppd: no modem sounds, no ppp-log entries, _nada_.  When I
try to start pppd manually, it puts its interrogation packets to the screen
(stdout), presumably because of the stand-alone redirections which have
been commented out of /etc/ppp/options.

When I invoke diald with _inappropriate_ options, it spits out the correct
usage.  When I 'killall diald' I see a SIGHUP sent to pppd, which appears
on ppp-log.  I start diald with: '/sbin/diald /dev/modem dynamic' --
I also tried an invocation with PAP verification, but it never gets off the
ground in either case.  I suppose it doesn't have enough routing info to
know it should establish the ppp link.

How can I put diald in touch with pppd, or otherwise diagnose this?  Sorry
to post such a random set of symptoms, but with help I'll narrow it down.

Thanks --jmm--

John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
   Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0853
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