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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slip on demand???
Date: 22 Sep 1996 08:02:14 GMT
Organization: FreeBSD makes fun
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In article <3244C2FF.FF6D5DF@freebsd.org>,
	"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Rudolf Christel Jr. wrote:
>> 
>> Is there any way to enable on demand dialing for freebsd with slip?
> 
> Nope, only ppp currently supports demand-dialing.  If this were a Terry
> Lambert posting, I'd now suggest that implementing this would be a
> simple matter of virtualizing the dialer/protocol interface and allowing
> ppp and slip to access a common dialer support library, fully template
> driven so you could also trivially pick your connection type from a wide
> array of choices, of course. :-)

hehehe ;-))

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