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From: carlsonj@workingcode.com
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PPPd as a dialin server and dialout client
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:16:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16600.23394.271160.500095@carlson.workingcode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622140754.68934.qmail@web50209.mail.yahoo.com>

Milan P. Stanic writes:
> > However, handling them from a single daemon wouldn't be supported by
> > the current code, and if these dial-in and dial-out instances need to
> > have the same IP addresses, then things get even more problematic.
> 
> I'm using mgetty in AUTO_PPP mode and diald (dial-on-demand) daemon
> for such servers for years.

You're right; I should have said "from a single *pppd* instance."  If
that's what the original poster wanted, it doesn't yet exist, at least
that I know of.

> It would be better to have the same daemon
> to handle incoming/outgoing connections, but I don't know for such
> software. So, mgetty/diald is "good enough".

Probably so.

-- 
James Carlson                                 <carlsonj@workingcode.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 14:07 PPPd as a dialin server and dialout client Jaspreet Singh
2004-06-22 14:49 ` carlsonj
2004-06-22 15:34 ` Milan P. Stanic
2004-06-22 16:16 ` carlsonj [this message]
2004-06-22 16:58 ` Jaspreet Singh
2004-06-22 16:58 ` Bill Unruh
2004-06-22 19:20 ` Milan P. Stanic
2004-06-22 23:20 ` Bill Unruh
2004-06-23  1:53 ` Jaspreet Singh

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