Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 11:29:57 +0930 From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709090200.LAA06125@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:06:20 MST." <199709082306.QAA05241@bubba.whistle.com>
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> IMHO, the proper way to do this is to let the PPP daemon handle it > by installing a route first (so you let the routing code determine > whether packets are supposed to go over the WAN link or not, as it > should) and then checking each outgoing packet for suitability as > "demand" (not all are, e.g., NTP packets). When "demand" is seen, > it should start dialing, etc. The same "demand" test can also apply > to idle timeout calculations. This is how mpd does it, anyway. Yeah, same with ijppp, but it means you can only use those packages to do a connection, ie its not very general... (So its too bad if you have dialon demand ISDN :) Err, whats mpd do? :) Seeya Darius ~~~~~~
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