Re: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections

["Bjoern.Kahl" <Bjoern Kahl kiel netsurf de>]

  Hallo !

On 28-Jun-99 Waldo Bastian wrote:
> "Jesse D. Sightler" wrote:

>> "Bjoern.Kahl" wrote:
>> >   I personaly need a way, to dial out while I am not logged in.
>> >   (newstransfer in the early morning, it´s to expensive rest of the
>> >   day)

>> I'm sure that I'm missing something here when I ask this, but why
>> shouldn't you just use diald for dial on demand?

> diald doesn't work very well for a lot of applications on machines
> with dynamic IP-addresses. The first packet is being sent with
> a wrong IP-address. This does trigger diald, but the first request
> of the application get's lost.

> Also the application doesn't get a notification when the network
> connection gets lost.

  And more important: I simply distrust diald. I don't want let some
  nameserver-queries or an misbehaving application ruin my bank-account.

  I'd like to start my connection by hand. (let cron do it is considered
  "doing by hand" this time). NetMgr allows me that. It even has the
  ability to be disabled and reenable. In disabled operation, each
  connectionrequest is answered with an "forbidden" message back to the
  client. 


  Bjoern


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