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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Divert sockets..
In-Reply-To: <199709090200.LAA06125@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> from "Daniel J. O'Connor" at "Sep 9, 97 11:29:57 am"
To: doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au (Daniel J. O'Connor)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
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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

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