> Some of you might have noticed that Eric has been rather busy
> with Real Work and there hasn't been a diald release for quite
> a while. Hence I am taking over (with Eric's permission) for
> the foreseeable future.
>
> The diald/dctrl I am using is quite a bit changed from the
> last 0.16.5. Some changes for the better, possibly some for
> the worse. At this stage what I want is to know what people
> think needs doing. There is no guarantee it will be done
> before the next (0.2? 1.0?) release - even if you send patches
> since they might have no relation to my current code anymore :-).
> Send mail anyway. I get lonely :-(.
My major thought for diald/dctrl is an improved mechanism for those of us
running two (or more) diald demons. With the version I have at least,
diald always talks to the same fifo. this makes using dctrl or any diald
commands impossible. I have thought that the demon running sl0 should
talke to pipe0 and sl1 should talke to pipe1 etc. I started to do this,
but am really not a programmer.
thanks for listening.
bob
>
> The (possibly abridged :-) ) list of things done already include:
> TCP monitor connections (with tcpwrapper support but no login style
> authentication, yet), optional passing of syslog messages to
> monitors using MESSAGE (plus corresponding dctrl changes), AF_PACKET
> support if the running kernel supports it (with fallback to the
> old SOCK_PACKET), block does not block a manual up request, new
> block-route option that does not install routes if the link is
> blocked (not quite complete yet), options to allow nice/scheduling
> class to be specified, byte/packet counts are collected for active
> links and dctrl can display them so you know where your bandwidth
> has gone, changes for dev interfaces such as ippp (which has no
> blocking dial and which is "interesting" when you have multiple
> two way links sharing a limited set of ISDN channels :-( ), dctrl
> can connect via TCP, dctrl has a toolbar, dctrl has a limit to the
> number of lines it holds in the information window, the dctrl
> scrollbars don't shuffle around when we change the displayed
> information, dctrl is not so easily confused if some monitor
> output is lost. Oh, and some fixes :-).
>
> At this stage there is no schedule, no change to the "official"
> diald web site and no "official" release site. If you can offer
> web or ftp space please feel free but otherwise don't ask :-).
>
> Mike
>
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