On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:26:54 +1100, da Silva, Joe wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:05:01 +0100, Michael Polak wrote:
>> <snip> >> > - replacement of EPPPD.EXE by LSPPP.EXE >> Do you want core to look LSPPP instead of EPPPD? >> Or should we make it possible for the user to choose any packet driver? > [Joe da Silva] > Previous discussions on this topic concluded that > Arachne should in future only look for the string 'PPP' > in the packet driver's name, to determine if it was > using a PPP packet driver. It was also concluded that > Arachne should use the same criteria to determine > if it should display the "connect time", whereas > presently it will not display the "connect time" if > the BOOTP method is selected (even though both > EPPPD and LSPPP support it). This change will > make it much easier to use different PPP packet > drivers with Arachne. > I presume Arachne wants to know if the packet > driver is a PPP packet driver, so that it knows to > dial the modem and to hang-up? If so, then maybe > it should look for either 'PPP' or 'SLIP' in the name > of the packet driver? (Or does nobody use SLIP > nowadays, therefore don't bother to cater for it? > Or am I misunderstanding why Arachne cares > about the name of the packet driver?) > The other option of course is to have an explicit > configuration flag, indicating whether or not the > packet driver connects via dial-up modem ... Thank you very much for reminding me of this fact. I had done the following change when I got the SRC for v1.69 (but I forgot to include it in my changes to v1.70) It is now in there and this change is now included in changes/glennmcc/171alpha.zip --- clipped from adial.c --- //!!glennmcc: begin Dec 24, 2000 // changed "PPPD.EXE to "PPP" so that *any* .EXE, .COM or .BAT // with "PPP" in the name will still result in a new PPPDRC.CFG file // examples... epppd.exe ppp.exe myppp.exe lsppp.exe loadppp.bat ppp_drv.com // if(strstr(strupr(value),"PPPD.EXE")) if(strstr(strupr(value),"PPP")) //!!glennmcc: end ____________________________ -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.zorg.org/unixhumour/
