From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 23:36:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA07552 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07537 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA05247; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970908233556.55337@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:35:56 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. References: <19970909121656.54373@lemis.com> <199709090253.MAA08793@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199709090253.MAA08793@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au>; from Daniel J. O'Connor on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 12:23:43PM +0930 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel J. O'Connor scribbled this message on Sep 9: > > > > I don't know what packages you'd want to use, but why constrain > > IOW, you want to write a general dialler. How are you going to handle > > the fight with the owner of the port. > Err, it wouldn't matter, the 'dialer' would call the program that does > the dialing.. hmm... sounds like a REALLY good use for the disc device.. :) just configure the disc device, then somehow have the ppp/dialer either down the disc, or handle the routing info in the dialer... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD