Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:27:38 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... Message-ID: <199602160227.SAA21980@idiom.com>
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* > 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). There are a number of advantages. You can rewrite the addresses differently depending on which POP the user connected to. It can almost transparent to almost everyone. You'll never run out of addresses or have to hassle the NIC for more. * > 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. That's why it's important to issue an "atz" afterwards. * > 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. No matter. Make one up. A readable hash of the contents of the root directory. Anything. * > * 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_. Tk vs. HTML. Not worth fighting about. -Dave
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