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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Divert sockets..
To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:34:13 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: grog@lemis.com, doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199709090353.UAA26952@bubba.whistle.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Sep 8, 97 08:53:34 pm
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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).

Hey!  You just invented a transient demand-based serial LLC!

We can call it "TDS".

8-) 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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