Re: Daemon for managing dialup internetconnections

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

"Bjoern.Kahl" wrote:

> > 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.

Ok, I suppose that I don't really disagree with either of these problems.
I personally haven't had any significant problem with diald over a dynamic
IP connection, even using a little fetchmail script that starts up the
connection itself, so I can't tell that packet loss on connection is a
problem, but YMMV.  :)

And it would be nice to have something that gave me a little more control
over the whole process.  For example, sometimes I've had sluggish downloads
get chopped by diald dropping the connection due to inactivity.  In reality
the only problem was the server stopped sending data for just long enough
to trigger the timeout.  Something like NetMgr as a CORBA service might
allow me to temporarily disable inactivity logout, which is definately a
good thing, IMO.

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