[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP up/opened

> > My problem was that PPP can be in the started phase while the
> > interface is
> > still down. This has no use. Why doesn't an up request start the
> > interface
> > so that they can be combined into the same request?
> > Why did they split that system into down&initial and down&started?
> > Maybe I
> > will find out when I read everything two or three times?
>
> It did have a use once. The idea was that the physical link could die
> when there was no network traffic, thereby saving on phone line usage,
> without requiring re-negotiation of the link when it came back. The
> idea was to make it be able to go up and down transparently, as the
> situation demanded.

Doesn't that imply that your ISP saves the state of each of his millions of
users? How does your ISP know that you are down but not in the initial
state? This is only possible if you implement this as an extra control
protocol feature, isn't it?

Waldemar

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