RE: [TCLUG:2878] diald vs ppp 2.3.5

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

I had dial-on-demand working on my box with pppd (don't remember the
version...I wanna say 2.3.4?). There was an option that you used in the
options file...Arrg. I don't mean to be so lame about not knowing the
specifics, but I know it CAN be done, and I was running a bare Red Hat 5.0
installation at the time, which would have put it at something like kernel
2.0.32. I was/am also using it as a ipfwadm server. I ended up taking it off
because I only have one line and didn't want to goof up someone's phone call
by bringing up a browser window. There were also issues with stray packets
comming from one of my Windows boxes (NetBIOS traffic, maybe?) that brought
up the link unexpectedly. I know I could have filtered this out, but decided
to bag the thing for the previous reason.

Anyway, my point is that it CAN be done without an experimental kernel. I
don't know diald, so it may still be a better opiton for some other
reason...

Neal

P.S. I think I did it using a HOWTO (dial-on-demand, perhaps?).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad C. Walstrom [mailto:chewie@soncom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:29 PM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: RE: [TCLUG:2878] diald vs ppp 2.3.5
>
>
> > From: Ben Luey [mailto:lueyb@carleton.edu]
> >
> > The new version of ppp (2.3.5) does dial on demand. Are there any
> > advantages / disadvantages of ppp for dial on demand over diald? I have
> > both setup, so ocnfiguration isn't an issue.
>
> pppd 2.3.5 *does* do dial-on-demand, however, you must have an advanced
> kernel to use it.  (I think it's kernel 2.1.100 -- or something close
> thereof.)  But why go with the kernel version 2.1.100 if you can
> go with the
> newest one, 2.1.131 (I think -- maybe it's 132, now).  At kernel version
> 2.1.120, the Linux development team dropped the current firewalling scheme
> in favor of a new one.  Thus, a conversion from using the tool ipfwadm to
> using ipchains is necessary if you want to retain your IP-Masquerading.  I
> don't think it's a heafty change, just lots of coding.  You'd probably end
> up changing a few boot scripts.  I know that in Debian the
> anti-spoofing is
> all scripted using the ipfwadm command.  Not difficult, just time
> consuming.
>
> Of course, the advantage of using diald over pppd's dial-on-demand is the
> time you save on reconfiguring the security on your box.  If
> you're willing
> to get your hands dirty, then pppd alone will save you a little diskspace
> and one less package to track.
>
> Chewie
>
>
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