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Re: dial-on-demand via kerneld

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Mitchell)
Fri Jul 12 16:47:41 1996

From: "Graham Mitchell" <gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk>
To: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@jcu.cz>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 	Thu, 11 Jul 1996 04:33:30 +0000
Reply-to: gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk

On 10 Jul 96 at 9:48, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:

> It seems that with the request-route mechanism the first packet from the 
> application is discarded somewhere in the process of updating networking 
> structures. Is there any way to avoid this problem?

Yes..... the best way is to ignore the kerneld dial on demand, and 
switch to using diald..... It doesnt loose the first packet when it 
alters routes or anything, and its well supported.



Graham
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