Subject: Re: Current kernel has routing problems?
To: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
From: Gorgonio Araujo <gorgonio@ufba.br>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/1996 18:16:42
On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:

[...]
> I can't see how you can do demand dialing without know the IP addresses,
> otherwise everytime you do anykind of network traffic it would dial up.
>
[...]

Isn't this the most common case? If your provider has more the one
comunication server, how can you guess which one will take the call? Why
doesn't pppd re-configure its interface and also default route after the
connection based on the negotiation with its pear?

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