Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:12:56 +0200 | From | Erik Corry <> | Subject | Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294) |
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In article <19981019171541.A4031@caffeine.ix.net.nz> you wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 12:47:46PM -0700, Eric Schenk wrote:
>> [...] Frankly the real problem is that the internet was never >> designed to allow for dynamic IP addresses, and anything we do to >> hack them in results in one problem or another. Anyway, I don't >> like this solution much, but I can't offer the right solution >> either.
> Why not do what some other OSs do - that is, attempt to dial on > demand via some other mechanism only when the applications needs to, > and defer socket creation undit the interface is up?
Because most of these solutions will cause more dialling. We don't want a situation where people complain that 2.2 is costing them a lot of money because it dials when 2.0 didn't.
Also, the original dyn_addr hack is already in 2.1, it works the problems are theoretical, and you can switch it off.
-- Erik Corry erik@arbat.com Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!
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