Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:56:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au (Daniel J. O'Connor) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709090356.UAA26970@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199709090200.LAA06125@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> from "Daniel J. O'Connor" at "Sep 9, 97 11:29:57 am"
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> > IMHO, the proper way to do this is to let the PPP daemon handle it > > by installing a route first (so you let the routing code determine > > whether packets are supposed to go over the WAN link or not, as it > > should) and then checking each outgoing packet for suitability as > > "demand" (not all are, e.g., NTP packets). When "demand" is seen, > > it should start dialing, etc. The same "demand" test can also apply > > to idle timeout calculations. This is how mpd does it, anyway. > Yeah, same with ijppp, but it means you can only use those packages to > do a connection, ie its not very general... > (So its too bad if you have dialon demand ISDN :) > > Err, whats mpd do? :) Mpd is basically a multi-link version of ijppp.. originally based on it but completely rewritten... there's a new version available at ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/mpd-1.0b4.tgz Some functionality was removed, such as LQR, filtering, and terminal mode. It has a (IMHO) better scripting language though, which allows you to auto-detect the modem type, etc. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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