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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections
From:       Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date:       1999-06-28 18:30:03
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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

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