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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When can we expect 2.2 release CD?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:05:15 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <5ea55l$j8p@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>,
brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
> Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote:
>: If 2.1.7 is released to subscription customers before 2.2, *please* try to
>: merge in the new iijppp! :-)
>
> Currently, the alias stuff is only in the 2.2 and 3.0 branches. 2.1.7
> is meant only as a bug-fixed 2.1.*.....
>
> Having said that, http://www.srv.net/~cmott has a version that runs
> on 2.1.* - you may want to try that.
I've already gotten the CURRENT version to compile under 2.1.6, but much
to my disappointment, the -ddial option doesn't do what I had hoped. Oh,
it *works*, yes, but what I was hoping for was that it could be used in
conjunction with the -auto option (which it can't) to force a redial if
an automatically spawned connection was dropped. As it is, it's obviously
intended for those with dedicated IP accounts, to keep the connection up
24 hours a day.
Here's an opportunity just waiting for some noble hacker-type person out
there to fill a need. :-) Ideally, pour moi, an "auto-redial after drop"
option that could be used with -auto and that still honored the idle
timeout setting would be just the ticket (for those cron-spawned news
downloads, etc.). If I use -ddial (with my non-dedicated account), my
ISP's gonna get pissed at me for sure. :-)
Any takers? :-)
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads