Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 14:06:07 +0930 From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709090436.OAA08966@bay.ist.flinders.edu.au>
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> I think what he's saying is that it would be nice to divorce the > "dial-on-demand" functionality from the thing that is actually > doing the dialing... you could do this with divert sockets, but > it would require some sort of "api" to the PPP process not only > to tell it to connect (eg, send SIGUSR1), but also to be able to > determine whether the link is already up (to avoid a flood of > such signals). Yes, or perhaps check a file(ie /var/run/ppp0.link or something), this would make things more flexible.. (IMO) Seeya Darius ~~~~~~
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