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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:11:48 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Divert sockets..
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 11:29:57AM +0930, Daniel J. O'Connor wrote:
>
>> 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...

I don't understand.  Which packets do you want to use?  If they're not
destined for that interface, they shouldn't cause a dialup.

> (So its too bad if you have dialon demand ISDN :)

I don't understand this statement, either.

Greg