Timeout for AutoPPP login - and an add-on for the mgetty/vgetty program...

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:32:17AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> >   - return <0> - answer immediately
> >   - return <1> - do not answer at all, never
> 
> I would split between REJECT and IGNORE call.  With current technology
> (ZyXEL) you do ATH0 in both cases, and if no other device is there,
> it BUSies.

ok, so let's do this:

0        - answer immediately (same as "10", actually)
1        - ignore call
2        - reject call (ignore call if no REJECT possible)
3        - "ask me again"
10 + <n> - answer in <n> RINGs from now

> >   - return <2> - "ask me again" -> cnd-program will be called again after
> >                  next RING, and can then return 0/1/2 again
> 
> This is exactly the interface of my CND program patch. Only difference
> is that ask me again is not implement in mgetty yet (or maybe it is,
> now).

Well, yes, basically the new concept came from your patch.

gert
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