On Monday 11 October 2004 20.24, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 11, Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > why ppp provides its own mechanism of telling programs when the > > interface is coming up or down? Many programs register for the ppp > > mechanism, but not for the network mechanism. Where is the difference > > and why both isn't > > Historical reasons? Also, many programs are interested only the ppp > interface (it could be argued that they actually care about the > interface associated to the default route, but at this point it would be > a bit complex to do something about this).
I agree with JÃrg, though, that this should be unified for sarge+1. JÃrg: file a wishlist bug with ppp and/or programs using ppp/if-*.d, perhaps? cheers -- vbi -- Oops
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