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Subject: Re: Divert sockets..
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 14:06:07 +0930
From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@ist.flinders.edu.au>
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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).
Yes, or perhaps check a file(ie /var/run/ppp0.link or something),
this would make things more flexible.. (IMO)

Seeya
Darius
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