FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: ppp_server backround app or registrar add-on?

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Hansson <lars-openbeos-misc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > IMO something like inetd would be a good place for functionality 
> > like 
> > this (or whatever we'll call it). It could also (optionally) 
> > display 
> > the link status in the Deskbar, the connection speed, etc.
> Unless openbeos inetd is going to be very different from every other 
> inetd this doesnt sound like a job for it. inetd accepts network 
> connections and run programs that handler those connections and to me 
> that's very different from ppp-dial-on-demand and/or showing deskbar 
> icons.

I wouldn't have a problem with a very different inetd for us, but I 
think it would be an addition that still fits into its realm (even if 
it's only its name that does that :).
IOW I don't see a reason to have two different network related daemons 
when it can easily and efficiently handled by one. We don't even have 
to call it inetd, we can even call it net_server, and it could just do 
everything in that regard.

Bye,
   Axel.