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kapis-p@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Piotr Kapiszewski) writes:

>We now really need dial-on-demand.  Check out dp-2.3 sources at Perdue for
>their deamon.  It is supposedly much better then pppd.  The only problem is
>that there is no linux port.

Nor is there likely to be one in the future.

We did look at dp. (The current version is 3.0, by the way.)

We also looked at 'portable ppp' and another package called simply 'ppp'.

The problem with dp is that there is no support for any system which does
not use streams. The dp program is a streams driver. The documentation
says that at the start, there was a bsd section. However, it was not
maintained and was subsequently removed some time ago.

A great many changes have taken place with dp since then. I doubt that it
would be worth trying to make it work under Linux.

Demand dial is getting closer in pppd. It looked like it was going to make
it in pppd-2.3.0, but it probably won't by now.

The major addition in pppd-2.3 is the support for BSD compression
protocol.

The major change in pppd for Linux is to get rid of the kludges which Linux
has in the pppd process and go to a simpler format of using select() rather
than SIGIO and SIGALRM.

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Al Longyear           longyear@netcom.com