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> After spending over a week in attemps of making version 0.99.1 working on a
> basic RHL6.0 box I decided to look into the source of it. I did not get why
> did the whole thing had to be written thru SLIP. Can someone explain it to
> me?
>
Originally this was the easiest (only!) way to get the kernel to hand
ip traffic to a user process for monitoring and forwarding. With
the newer kernels there seem to be more options.
It is a pretty clever idea -- opening a pty and telling the
kernel it is a slip port. You can do the same thing with pppd.
Open a pty and run pppd on the other end.
> I've been thinking of trying to rewrite diald, maybe not with as many
> features, yet something that would be easy to install. Does anyone have any
> good ideas of how the good thing should work?
>
Diald is a complex full-featured program. It can be difficult to
setup and diagnose, as anyone who follows this mailing list can
attest to. However i'm not sure a diald-lite is a good idea, expecially
since (i hear) pppd has an on-demand feature that may work for
simple configurations.
But if you want to "scratch that itch", go for it.
-- cary
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