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voidmain:
You're a Mandrake user right? Here's an RPM for Mandrake 9.0 (if that's not what you need there are RPMS on rpmfind.net for other distros):

http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/diald-1.0-2mdk.i586.html

Now when I used it, it wasn't the easiest thing to set up and get working. You basically really had to understand TCP/IP, slip and ppp. But once you got it working it worked very well. Remember that kppp is just a frontend for pppd. When you have diald set up it will monitor your TCP/IP traffic and if it determines you are trying to make a connection outside of your local network it will use pppd to dial the internet. You can configure it to disconnect after a specified period of inactivity. It is actually quite configurable. It would be cool if this were implemented in kppp.

In fact I used to have my home network set up exactly as it is now except instead of having a cable connection into my proxy/firewall/gateway machine I had a modem. I used diald on that server to connect to the net any time any of my machines attempted to connect to the internet. Worked quite well.

But I haven't used diald (or even kppp for that matter) in a couple of years now so I don't know how much help I will be for you (probably not much).

Calum:
thanks for doing the footowrk, void main, i have it installed from the rpm, but as always, not knowing how to fix the error messages pisses me off a lot.

as for getting diald to work, i don't understand networking beyond a very general thing, so maybe you or somebody sould point me in the direction of some sort of 'how does ppp work - in specific' type of website. i read the man for diald, but am none the wiser for how to set it up (although i now know what it's supposed to do!) so maybe i need some sort of info on how slip, ppp and so on work, any ideas, folks?

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