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Subject: Re: Little Summary of "Daemon for managing dialup internetconnec
From: Matt Koss <koss () napri ! sk>
Date: 1999-07-02 15:30:19
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On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 01:01:30PM +0200, Matt Koss wrote:
>
>
>> >> BTW, is NetMgr suitable for ISDN connections ?
>> >> I am writing kisdn everywhere, but I still don't know if it can be used
>> >> here.
>
>generally - yes. Currently, kisdn has no commandline options to
>connect/disconnect. You just could send it a USR1 to connect or HUP to
>disconnect. But we still have plans to make a commandline version of
>kisdn.
Great.
>
>> > Both actions setup a timer. If timer expires, connecting (or
>> > disconnecting) is considered failed. Clients which have requested so,
>> > gets informed about failure (or success) via the NetMgr-notify-system.
>>
>> That's nice, but how will it interfere with kppp / kisdn ?
>> AFAIK kppp has it's own timer for failure detection. I don't know 'bout kisdn.
>
>If a connection can't be established, kisdn notices this. However, there
>is currently no way to find out, whether authentication failed or passed,
>or if the handshake of the ipppd worked properly. kisdn just knows if the
>(physical) connection is up or not. There is a timeout after which kisdn
>'assumes' everything went ok, tho.
I guess that first we will create something and then we'll make this totally
cooperative with kppp and kisdn, so that users will benefit from it.
>
>I'm all for this KNetManager, and we definitely want to help making
>this stuff work properly.
That's good to hear. I guess that kppp people will do the same.
Regards
Matt
>Cheers,
>Carsten Pfeiffer
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