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Release 0.10 of diald is available.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Mon Sep 18 00:45:01 1995
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:20:24 -0400
From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
I am happy to to announce the release of version 0.10 of diald.
This is the third BETA release of diald. This release is mostly
a bug fix release, but a couple of minor features have sneaked
their way in (again). The main thing is support for an external
monitoring program. An example Tk/Tcl program that uses this
feature is include. There are still fair number of things on
the wish list. I'll try to get to them all eventually.
If you're interested in what I'm still planning for the first
generation diald see the file WISHLIST in the distribution.
Eventually I intend to completely redesign diald from the ground up,
since it's getting a bit hard to shoehorn some of the features I want
into the current code base.
For those who do not already know, diald is a daemon that
does demand dialing for PPP and SLIP. The purpose of diald
is to make it transparently appear that you have a permanent connection
to a remote site. Diald sets up a "proxy" device which stands in for
the physical connection to a remote site. It then monitors the proxy,
waiting for packets to arrive. When interesting packets arrive
it will attempt to establish the physical link to the remote site
using either SLIP or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic
from the proxy to the physical link. As well, diald will monitor
traffic once the physical link is up, and when it has determined
that the link is idle, the remote connection is terminated. The
criteria for bringing the link up and taking it down are configurable
at run time, and are based upon the type of traffic passing over the link.
The file is diald-0.10.tar.gz. As usual I've uploaded it to
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming. It should move to
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial after a suitable interval.
-- eric
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Eric Schenk schenk@cs.toronto.edu
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
