[aclug-L] Re: Diald

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> You can _theoretically_ do some of that with straight pppd--you can,
> according to the man page, specify filters for which types of packets
> bring up the link.  When I tried to do it, though, pppd complained about
> unrecognized commands (a case of unfeatured documents, rather than
> undocumented features?)

The ppp code is in a state of flux wrt dynamic ip. It mostly works, but
things keep getting changed.  The latest version (bleeding edge) supports
pluggable modules which should theoretically make these things easier.
But I keep seeing reports of various things breaking with the newest
release...

- Dale -

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