On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> Yes, but why can't it be used just like having FreePPP set to allow
> applications to connect? That works fine under MacOS. I understand that
> socket connections couldn't be maintained across sessions, but you should
> be able to rig it to just re-ppp-up everytime we want to send something out
> & then time-out the connection after "n" minutes of inactivity. As long as
> you ppp-down upon that timeout, I dunno why there'd be a problem.

You probably can do that. But one of the cool things about "Dial on
demand" is that it preserves connections, which can't happen with dynamic
IP addresses. So it's a definitional impossibility. :-(

Take care,

Bill