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["Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>]

Hi Jerome,

> why do you need a background process for prompting the user ? Your new 
> connections go through a net lib which is still in userland and can provide 
> this 
> prompt when needed. Or the current API doesn't permit this ?

There are many reasons:
1) I want PPP to be a real module and nowhere integrated into OBOS
2) when we get multi-user support it is important that some process can do the 
dialing although the user does not have direct access to the settings files
3) a Deskbar replicant must be added anyway and this cannot be handled by 
libnet.so, but either by a Deskbar add-on or a background process
4) when/if I get to adding PPP server support there must be some userland app 
that provides the authentication mechanism (we should not implement an LDAP or 
RADIX client as a kernel module)
5) we could implement DHCP and other userland services into the net_server 
(although...DHCP will probably go into the kernel some day)

Bye,
Waldemar