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Re: modem share



Peter writes:
 > 
 > As pointed out, diald tries to do it, but it is very funky. Read the 
 > manual carefully as it has some limitations. It is especially braindead 
 > when used in combination with PPP as it requires a local SLIP link or such.
 > imho tunneling more than one user's traffic using diald is a bad idea.

I don't know what your point is.  It doesn't tunnel.  It uses a slip
link on ptys to watch the traffic & brings up the ppp connection when
it sees traffic that should be forwarded.  What does this have to do
with the number of users using it?

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Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il