From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 15 17:12:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA09827 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA09822 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA24317; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:45:47 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602160115.LAA24317@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:45:46 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602151811.KAA07180@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Feb 15, 96 10:11:56 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[