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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slip on demand???
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:39:27 -0700
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To: "Rudolf Christel Jr." <rcj@c-edv.de>

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. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project