Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kerneld/request-route | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:31:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Eric Schenk wrote: > > There good reasons diald does not just run a user script. I originally > > tried this approach and ran into several serious problems. The main > > difficulty is as follows. > > > > Diald needs to know which ppp device (or slip device, diald supports slip > > as well) came up so it can monitor its status.
I use ip-up and ip-down to create/destroy files with all the PPP link info. This allows me to monitor the link with the same command regardless of the actual device. Dialing is handled by kerneld and a script, re-dialing is handled similarly.
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