Re: [Sheflug] Dialling Internet on Demand

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> On-demand dialling is now built in to pppd. Check out the man pages for pppd
> (you used to have to use diald in the olden days :-)
> 

diald isn't *that* old ... no ... in the real olden days, one would write a 
script called "request-route", stick it in sbin, and let kerneld call it :) 
diald came later, then pppd "demand" is the latest.

Chris...

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