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First BETA release of diald (0.8) available.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Aug 6 20:34:03 1995
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 20:14:56 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: schenk@cs.toronto.edu (Eric Schenk)
Subject: First BETA release of diald (0.8) available.
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I am happy to to announce the release of version 0.8 of diald.
Diald seems to have been pretty stable over the last few months,
so with this release I'm changing the status of diald from ALPHA
to BETA. This release introduces a few new features. Most notably
it speeds up initial connections a bit, and has code to allow diald
to handle incoming calls as well as outgoing calls. There are still
quite a few 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-0.8.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
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