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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: AMITCP 4.3 patch
- Date: 08 Apr 96 03:01:12 +0100
- Organization: TeleDanmark Internet
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- On 07-Apr-96 19:05:24, Lee Bosch wrote:
-
- > I had to make the whole patch to 4.3 by hand. It was slow and painful
- > and in the end I was rewarded with a configuration that was much more
- > difficult to use than my 4.2 setup. There is nothing in the readme
- > file that indicates how to get things rolling with PPP's built-in dialer
- > (I'm not sure that the new bootpconfig will allow it).
- > I'm seriously considering going back to the revised 4.2 bootpconfig as
- > the new one is just too "flexible".
-
- I know what you mean, but somehow they managed to make it flexible in
- ways that I have no use for without providing means of getting around
- PPP's limitations.
-
- Take me: I have one ISP, but with several alternative phone numbers. How
- do I make a script that will fall back to the next phone number when the
- first is BUSY? Of course it can be done, but not without violating the
- general concept.
-
- One appealing approach would be to put the loop into db/Provider.conf,
- but how do I feed the Dial.ssrx script with a new phone number when
- /the/ number is supposed to be at the top of db/Provider.conf so it can
- be read by the "Get PhoneNumber" command in ssrx/Dial.ssrx? In stead I
- will probably put all the phonenumbers in one string and have Dial.ssrx
- dissolve the string into the individual numbers before looping through
- them. It's do-able, but it's really something that a brand new dialer
- concept should provide.
-
- Then there's another problem: From next month the phone company will
- introduce a discount possibillity that requires you to dial a prefix if
- you intent to stay online for a longer period. The prefix will release a
- higher connect toll while the rate will be reduced by 50%.
-
- Therefore, I need a way tell the startnet script whether I want to dial
- with or without the prefix. Again, this can only be done by performing
- changes to scripts that I'm really not supposed to change, or by always
- copying a one of two almost identical provider profiles into
- db/Provider.conf before running startnet. No elegant solution comes to
- mind.
-
- > The new config program is the roughly the same as the old one. The
- > problem is that the author obviously didn't use PPP very much as the
- > configuration is like a lot of those backwards programs that spend
- > kilobytes of configuration files to get around writing a 50 byte PPP
- > dialer script.
-
- I share your feeling. There's no doubt that a newbie with one PPP-based
- ISP will have great difficulty in figuring out where the various PPP
- options go.
-
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- Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk
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