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diald 0.12 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Mon Feb 12 01:16:53 1996
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:22:45 -0500
From: Eric Schenk <schenk@rnode84.cs.toronto.edu>
I am happy to to announce the release of version 0.12 of diald.
This is the fifth BETA release of diald. After more than a year of
development and testing, I expect this to be the last beta release.
I have cleared the bug list of those bugs that I can verify still exist,
and added a small raft of minor new features, clearing up the wish list
for diald-1.0. Hopefully I managed to do this without introducing any
drastic new bugs. I am planning to let diald-0.12 undergo use for a
month or two, and then I will release diald-1.0 with any bug fixes
that may be necessary.
Time permitting I then intend to design a second generation diald
to address the feature requests I've had that just can't be fit
into the current code design.
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-0.12.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
