Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 10:51 AM 4/2/99 -0500, Tom Riddle wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking that there might be some confusion if the
> >source of the incoming call is the same as the destination
> >of the proxy interface. You now have two pppd's essentially
> >talking to the same remote host, no ?
>
> No, or at least not at the same time. Only one pppd is running at any given
> time, either
>
> (a) the one called by mgetty after it answers an incoming call; or
yes
> (b) the one called by diald (or whatever you use), after it makes
> an outgoing call.
>
> pppd and the kernel create and configure (as in ifconfig) the ppp0 interface
> on the fly when pppd is invoked, not before.
>
I'm using the demand-dial feature of pppd, so I invoke it with
somethinglike: pppd call host1. It creates an interface and waits for traffic,
then
dials the remote end. So, when an incoming call happens mgetty will
dutifully crank up another one and now I have two. Or am I missing
something here ?
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