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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 13 Jan 100 10:09:32 +1030 (CST)

Re: Diald

> I have just put a RH6.0 firewall into a commercial windows network to give
> them email and browsing. I am running squid, ipchains and diald to do the
> dialing to bigpond. The firewall works great for the browsers ie. the modem
> auto dials in and connects. I can then run up Outlook express to retrieve
> some pop3 mail and this also works. The modem will stay up as long as there
> is traffic from the browser or Outlook. The problem I have is if there is no
> traffic and the link goes down Outlook won't bring it up again. I have to
> use the browser to get the link going and the Outlook works.
> 
> I am using a diald 0.16 rpm I found on the net and ipchains is masquerading
> ports 25,53,80,110.
> 
> I am also using Bigponds DNS.
> 
> Any ideas

Turn up the debugging on diald to quite high, (and make sure your
system logger is watching verbose logging events) and then you will be
able to see what packets are ariving at the diald dummy interface and
why they are not matching. You can then modify your ruleset
appropriately so that diald comes up when the pop3 or DNS (whichever
one it is) traffic generated by outlook is present.

The best Diald documentation is the dial man pages. I find the web
stuff a little lacking. The man page for syslog will tell you what to
do with syslog.conf to view the diald logging.

Cheers

Alex!

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Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>

NetCraft Australia
Phone (08) 8370 3650
http://www.netcraft.com.au

...I should have taken the blue pill.