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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slip on demand??? Date: 24 Sep 1996 22:58:02 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <529lha$fbj@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <01bba7b0$cccd2620$2a4070c2@buero.c-edv.de> <R.3244C2FF.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. : 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. :-) And if *this* were a TL posting, I'd have to point out that the common dialer shared library interface implementation in Solaris is broken by design as it does not abstract the ppp/slip specifics to the extent that should I wish to implement packet encapsulation on, say, a network interface, by using the dialer library, I would not have access to the level 1 IP protcol stack. *GRIN* -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....