From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20030721145135.15108.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ppp patches In-reply-to: References: From: Scott Schwartz Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:51:35 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff36e5f6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.