From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 19 01:12:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07711 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 01:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07676 Fri, 19 Apr 1996 01:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA13205; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:10:59 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA28522; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:10:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA05450; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:08:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604190808.KAA05450@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/1019 To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:08:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org, muir@idiom.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604190626.KAA00368@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Apr 19, 96 10:26:43 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > What happens if that modem isn't a dedicated modem, and can be used by > > non-PPP users? > > Then use PPP wchich understand login/password :-) > The problem with auto-detecting is line noise. It is possible that > some incoming junk looks like packet, detecting procedure must be > smart enough and detect several long packets in sequence to be shure, > not just one small packet. David, what do you think about reworking it? I think the summary of the opinions is: . no strong opposition against having this as an (optional) feature, . it must be safe to use however, i.e. the chance of a misdetection should be minimal. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)