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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:35:56 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Divert sockets..
Message-ID:  <19970908233556.55337@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199709090253.MAA08793@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au>; from Daniel J. O'Connor on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 12:23:43PM %2B0930
References:  <19970909121656.54373@lemis.com> <199709090253.MAA08793@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au>

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Daniel J. O'Connor scribbled this message on Sep 9:
> 
> > > I don't know what packages you'd want to use, but why constrain
> > IOW, you want to write a general dialler.  How are you going to handle
> > the fight with the owner of the port.
> Err, it wouldn't matter, the 'dialer' would call the program that does
> the dialing..

hmm...  sounds like a REALLY good use for the disc device.. :)

just configure the disc device, then somehow have the ppp/dialer either
down the disc, or handle the routing info in the dialer...

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