From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 21 14:48:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE00137C0FB for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA62969; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:47:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brian Somers Cc: Terry Lambert , winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:43:00 BST." <200006212143.WAA02255@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:47:59 +0200 Message-ID: <62967.961624079@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200006212143.WAA02255@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes: >> But a dial on demand line is a layered concept. You have a transient >> physical line with a layer on top of it which pretends to be a >> permanent line. > >Which unfortunately doesn't work with a dynamically assigned IP >number. That is a different story alltogether... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message