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[Steve Martin]

This mailing list seems very quiet, as does the newsgroup.  Is nothing 
happening with diald?

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[Michail Bachmann]

On Don, 23 Mai 2002, Steve Martin wrote:
> This mailing list seems very quiet, as does the newsgroup.  Is nothing 
> happening with diald?

No, it just works :-)

CU Micha

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[Steve Martin]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Michail Bachmann wrote:

> 
> On Don, 23 Mai 2002, Steve Martin wrote:
> > This mailing list seems very quiet, as does the newsgroup.  Is nothing 
> > happening with diald?
> 
> No, it just works :-)
> 
It may 'just work' but there are outstanding bugs on the home page, one 
of which I had to fix tomake it 'just work'.  Does it currently use the 
netfilter stuff as netlink is deprecated?

I noticed that the version shipped with Mandrake 8.2 uses tap0 as the 
device, my compiled version uses sl0 (slip) which make sense.  Anyone know 
why?

It's also a little slow on starting the proxy stuff, again anyone know 
why? No its not a slow machine - 1.3Ghz Athlon.

 -- 
-------------------------------------------------------
Steve Martin <srm@netcomuk.co.uk>

Man overboard!

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[Michail Bachmann]

On Tue, 28 Mai 2002, Steve Martin wrote:

> It may 'just work' but there are outstanding bugs on the home page, one > of which I had to fix tomake it 'just work'. 
The "CLK_TCK" bug? I posted a patch on this list and submitted it to sf long ago,
don't know why Mike still did not include it... :-/

>                                                          Does it currently use the 
> netfilter stuff as netlink is deprecated?
Diald 1.0 still uses netlink, I did not check the cvs version on sourceforge though.

> I noticed that the version shipped with Mandrake 8.2 uses tap0 as the 
> device, my compiled version uses sl0 (slip) which make sense.  Anyone know 
> why?
Diald automagically chooses which interface to use, it first tries tap and then slip.
If you dont have the ethertap module loaded, diald will use slip.

> It's also a little slow on starting the proxy stuff, again anyone know 
> why? No its not a slow machine - 1.3Ghz Athlon.
Can't help here, on my P120 it seems pretty fast... :-)

HTH. HAND.

CU Micha

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[Mike Jagdis]

Michail Bachmann wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mai 2002, Steve Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>It may 'just work' but there are outstanding bugs on the home page, one > of which I had to fix tomake it 'just work'. 
>>
> The "CLK_TCK" bug? I posted a patch on this list and submitted it to sf long ago,
> don't know why Mike still did not include it... :-/


It's in CVS. One day I may even get round to making a new release...

>>                                                         Does it currently use the 
>>netfilter stuff as netlink is deprecated?
>>
> Diald 1.0 still uses netlink, I did not check the cvs version on sourceforge though.


The CVS version of diald can use tun, tap or slip. If the tun code was
in 1.0 it was probably broken :-).

>>I noticed that the version shipped with Mandrake 8.2 uses tap0 as the 
>>device, my compiled version uses sl0 (slip) which make sense.  Anyone know 
>>why?
>>
> Diald automagically chooses which interface to use, it first tries tap and then slip.
> If you dont have the ethertap module loaded, diald will use slip.


Using slip is a _last_ resort. Slip only does IPv4. Just about any
other network interface can do many protocols simultaneously. Yes,
even PPP! Using tun or tap as the proxy means diald can handle
IPv4, IPv6, IPX etc. The diald 2.0 code in CVS even extends the
diald.defs syntax so you can have non-IPv4 rules and see all protocols
in the monitor output.

Avoid slip. Tap is currently in more kernels than tun (although probably
very few people are using those kernels now) and is fine for our
purposes. Tun is newer and "the way to go" - so we went there. It makes
little difference unless you need lots of diald managed links - I think
tap was limited to 16 at once :-).

>>It's also a little slow on starting the proxy stuff, again anyone know 
>>why? No its not a slow machine - 1.3Ghz Athlon.
>>
> Can't help here, on my P120 it seems pretty fast... :-)


Most unexpected delays point to misconfigured systems and DNS
time outs. But they could be lack of memory, excessive swapping,
pr0n mpegs running in the background... :-)

				Mike

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[Michail Bachmann]

On Mit, 29 Mai 2002, Mike Jagdis wrote:

[bug fix]
> It's in CVS. One day I may even get round to making a new release...
Maybe you could release a "bug fix only"-release (diald 1.1???) in the
meantime? I think it would save some people a little grieve.

> IPv4, IPv6, IPX etc. The diald 2.0 code in CVS even extends the
> diald.defs syntax so you can have non-IPv4 rules and see all protocols
> in the monitor output.

Sounds interesting, maybe someday....
But right now "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"... :-)


CU Micha

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[Michail Bachmann]

On Thursday 24 October 2002 10:14, Per Jessen wrote:
> All,
>
> I've just rejoined this list after a break - it's pretty quiet
> around here ? I guess diald is working pretty well ... :-)

I think we should add this question to the FAQ ;-)

> I was mainly looking for some info on the authsimple file -
> found it in a list archive, but shouldn't it be part of the
> doc too ? (diald-1.0)

Sorry, never heard of this file before, what the function of this file?

CU Micha

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[Mark Frey]

Hi Per,

I forget where this came from, but here's the top of my authsimple file:

# Simple authorization for diald control via TCP connection
# (normally for dctrl running on a workstation)

# format is:  name  allow,allow,allow..
#        or:  name  0x<hex allow bits>
#   where allow is one or more of: none, control, config, block, unblock,
#                                  force, unforce, down, up, delquit, quit,
#                                  reset, queue, debug, dynamic, monitor,
#                                  message, connect, demand, nodemand, auth.

# eg:
# thisuser up,down,message,connect
# totalaccess 0xFFFFFFFF


Sorry, I don't know offhand which allows correspond with which bits for 
the hex format.

In diald.conf:
authsimple /path/to/auth/file

Mark.


Per Jessen wrote:

> All,
>
> I've just rejoined this list after a break - it's pretty quiet
> around here ? I guess diald is working pretty well ... :-)
>
> I was mainly looking for some info on the authsimple file -
> found it in a list archive, but shouldn't it be part of the
> doc too ? (diald-1.0)
>
>
>
>
>
> regards,
> Per Jessen, Zurich
> http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.
>
> Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
>
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