From kde-devel Mon Jun 28 18:30:03 1999 From: Mario Weilguni Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:30:03 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93064158112495 At Mon, 28 Jun 1999 Waldo Bastian wrote: > "Jesse D. Sightler" wrote: > > > > "Bjoern.Kahl" wrote: > > > I personaly need a way, to dial out while I am not logged in. > > > (newstransfer in the early morning, itīs to expensive rest of the day) > > > > I'm sure that I'm missing something here when I ask this, but why > > shouldn't you just use diald for dial on demand? > > Good question. > > diald doesn't work very well for a lot of applications on machines > with dynamic IP-addresses. The first packet is being sent with > a wrong IP-address. This does trigger diald, but the first request > of the application get's lost. "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr" should fix this. Ciao, Mario -- A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.