Re: [9fans] ppp patches

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>]

Thanks Dave.

Looking that stuff over, I see that it doesn't use use factotum.  But
ip/ppp does!  Why not let factotum do all the prompting for passwords?
Also, the patches I sent use the server= field to distinguish multiple
places you might want to connect to.  I think that's worth having.
It also means that you don't have to prompt for the dial string, because
you can get it from factotum along with the other credentials.

I can't help noticing that the ipconf scripts don't use telco.  I really
like telco, I think it's a really beautiful demonstration of how Plan 9
does something much more cleanly than Unix.  It especially shines when
your ISP has several phone numbers, because you can add telco entries to
ndb and telco will try each phone number until it gets a connection (just
like telnet does with IP numbers.)  But maybe it is all less useful now
that modems are less popular, timeshareing is less popular, and perhaps
people just don't want to pay for an extra process handling the data.