Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: grog@lemis.com, doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <199709090834.BAA26536@usr09.primenet.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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