From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 23:48:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA10138 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (root@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.1.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA10066 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au (root@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au [129.96.43.66]) by adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22187 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:18:25 +0930 (CST) Received: from lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au (doconnor@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19339 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 16:18:05 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709090648.QAA19339@lofty.ist.flinders.edu.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 23:44:09 MST." <19970908234409.49021@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 16:18:02 +0930 From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > hmm... sounds like a REALLY good use for the disc device.. :) > > Disc device? Never heard of it.. > > What's it do? > it's a discard device... disc(4) is a network device that throws away all > packets... that way you can have the interface "up" and trigger a > dial.. but not have to have a complex interface... Ahh, neat.. pitty it actually throws them away.. Tho what I could do is check the destination(in the program which uses divert sockets), and if its disc, then it stores them until the 'real' link goes up.. Eww, hacky =) Seeya Darius ~~~~~~