[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP up/opened

> In reply to Emmanuel Jacobs:
> >> I think at a fist stage the interface is up and able to negociate
> >> LCP (authentication) and NCP (IPCP) then it can eventually go
> >> opened when succesfully negotiated...
> >
> > Maybe I did reverse the correct use of "up" and "opened" in the
> > previous mail... :-)
>
> Exact, but that's the idea behind this two states of a ppp "interface"
anyway:
> 1) it's first opened
> 2) link negociation protocols (LCP, NCP, and sub-protocols like CHAP lies
there)
> 3) it's going up, eventually :-)
> 4) ppp frames are sent/received, until...
> 5) it's going down (and closed, obvioulsy).

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?

Waldemar

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