Date: 03 Feb 2003 14:50:42 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <Maksim.Yevmenkin@cw.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts Message-ID: <1044246042.3685.19.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <45258A4365C6B24A9832BFE224837D552B1287@sjdcex01.int.exodus.net> References: <45258A4365C6B24A9832BFE224837D552B1287@sjdcex01.int.exodus.net>
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On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:41, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > yes. that is one example. but the real trouble with tty is the > server application that wants to listen on wildcard address. for > example Network Access point that listens on RFCOMM channel 1. no > matter what client comes in the server will just accept connection > on the socket, fork and run PPP in direct mode. > > also there are other things besides PPP that use RFCOMM. OBEX > is another example, where clients will put/get objects from > the server. OK, it is a pity you can't define variables when invoking PPP I guess :) > > Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. > > it will only work for in RFCOMM client case. i do not know > how to build server applications with tty interface (pty's > do not count :) Heh, I use birda for IRDA, it's strictly userland and uses pty's.. Works really well :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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