by chance, does anyone know...

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on May 01, Bill Day managed to emit:
> If pppd, 2.4.1, requires diald still...  I had to use it with 2.3.8, but I
> seen somewhere where 2.4.1 has a "demand dialing" option but cant seem to
> find out via samba.org/ppp or from man pppd.

I believe it has been incorporated into pppd, as ppp-2.4.1 includes
the "demand" and "persist" options. From the pppd manual page:

demand Initiate the link only on demand,  i.e.  when  data
       traffic  is  present.  With this option, the remote
       IP address must be specified by  the user  on  the
       command line or in an options file.  Pppd will ini-
       tially configure the interface and enable it for IP
       traffic without connecting to the peer.  When traf-
       fic is available, pppd will connect to the peer and
       perform negotiation, authentication, etc.  When
       this is completed, pppd will commence passing data
       packets (i.e., IP packets) across the link.
       
       The demand option implies the persist option.  If
       this behaviour is not desired, use the nopersist
       option after the demand option.  The idle and hold-
       off options are also useful in conjuction with the
       demand option.
       
Kurt
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