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RE: modem share
gal@netvision.net.il writes:
>
> On 28-Sep-97 Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> >Erez Doron writes:
> > > does anybody knows a program that will automaticaly connect to the
> > > my ISP whenever i try to acess the internet, and will automatically
> > > disconect if there was no net activity for some time ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Erez.
> > >
> >
> >It's called diald. Check the HOWTO.
> It's called kerneld , put the script in /sbin/request-route and that's
> about it.
> If it's ppp you can put what time-out you want it it's line paramters.
*Bad* advice. kerneld is *not* the way to do it. Using kerneld to
run request-route was a very brain-dead idea and has since been
removed from distributions. Having the kernel escape to a user space
process in the middle of servicing a packet breaks all sorts of
assumptions in the kernel code.
--
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il