[ale] Which OS for PPP to ISP?

[Steven A. Duchene]

	I haven't used it myself but I have heard good things about something
	called diald. It is a daemon you run and it connects with your ISP
	via SLIP or PPP on demand. It makes the commection on demand and 
	after a certain period of inactivity it disconnects the link. So
	while your dowloading something or staying busy doing web browsing
	it would stay connected but once the link was inactive for a period
	of time diald would take the link down. This is similar to the way
	kerneld loads and unloads kernel modules as needed to save memory.
	I don't know if there is a HOWTO on diald but perhaps someone who
	is actually using it could tell you more about it.
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