Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:45:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Message-ID: <199602160115.LAA24317@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199602151811.KAA07180@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Feb 15, 96 10:11:56 am
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David Muir Sharnoff stands accused of saying: > > I'm going to do it, but I'm not all that happy about it. > > Perhaps an inetd-like program that keeps other programs running? Huh? You don't make any sense; the shell loop _is_ "an inetd-like program that keeps other programs running". The question is "why does named bomb out", and the people to ask would be the bind-workers mailing list. > Well, the second part of this task is to do IP address rewrites on > the fly. Give all my dialup users static addresses in a reserved > network and then rewrite them on the fly as needed. This is not going to be popular with _anyone_. Why use a reserved network? Why not either grab a class C (not hard) or use something like SLiRP? (SLiRP works _very_ well these days). > As for the disconnnect codes, with the sportsters if you don't have the > modem reset on DTR drop, you can simply issue an "ati6" command and see > what's up. Not resetting modems on DTR drop is inviting sure death from modem firmware problems, _particularly_ with low-end modems like the sportster. > * > Better support for CDROM changers: it would be nice if it figured > * > out a mount point by looking at the disk the way that Solaris does. > * > * Not enough disks have meaningful identifiers; still, this could be > * done with a shellscript. > > It doesn't have to choose a good name, just a consistent one. No, the problem's just that not all CDroms can be meaningfully identified from their volume labels or contents. > * Yetch. Requires netscape; not necessarily a winner. > > Big win. It makes it easy to administer. This is the sort of feature > that can wean people away from Windows. Optional point-n-click sysadmin interface yes. Netscape/Webserver/CGIbin requiring implementation _no_. > -Dave -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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