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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!dubhe.anu.edu.au!sirius.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au (Paul Mackerras) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP under BSD (have a heart) Date: 3 Aug 1994 12:23:46 +1000 Organization: Department of Computer Science, Australian National University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31mv3i$6jr@sirius.anu.edu.au> References: <317qnl$f1m@cyberspace.com> <michaelv.775404734@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <31aajm$gfe@euterpe.owl.de> <31guqq$ghs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.anu.edu.au peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: >Anyone thought of a good way to get pppd to dial on demand? I've had this >idea of hooking pppd up via a pty to a daemon that dialed when it got >activity from pppd and then went into passthrough mode until it saw there >was no activity for a while and dropped the connect. That's something I'm working on. Eventually, I hope to release a new version of ppp with a `demand' option for pppd, as well as BSD-Compress implemented (maybe). Part of the fun, of course, is making sure it works under as many as possible of NetBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS 4, Ultrix, Linux, etc. And I also intend to have a Solaris 2 port soon. Paul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.au Dept. of Computer Science Australian National University.