From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 1:58:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9625A14CA5 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA86515; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:57:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00573; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:08:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908180808.JAA00573@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Somers Cc: Josef Karthauser , Leif Neland , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Budget on user-ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:04:28 BST." <199907062004.VAA74215@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:08:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > > Brian, > > > > The i4b stuff seems to have some sophisticated costing control code (isdn.rates). > > It appears that you can define the costs at different times of day and thereby > > vary the timeouts, etc. I wonder whether any of this can be adapted for "modem ppp". > > I've added it to my todo list. I'll probably look at the BACP or MP+ > stuff first though, and then at the ``when to bring up another link'' > code.... all fun & games :-) [.....] FWIW, ppp can now be given a minimum idle timer. While not covering everything, it does address the minimum call charge side of things. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message