No, the pppd 'demand' option only looks at whether or not there is packet
activity and will drop the connection even though you have an open (telnet, for
example) session - diald will keep it open until you exit the (telnet) session.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Glen Bankston wrote:
>
> With RH 6.0/6.1 and pppd: does the 'demand' option TRUELY take the place
> of diald?
> If so, and gotchas I need to watch out for?
> It took me so long to get diald working on my system, that I am dreading
> updating to 6.X from 5.1 !!!
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