On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, James Carlson wrote:
This is information that's really known only to the dialer involved, and not to pppd, which 'sees' only a channel for PPP frames. You can hack around the issue by setting an environment variable to communicate the information needed, but there's no native support in the current design for recording this medium-dependent information. There probably should be something added,
I don't agree. The caller of pppd can provide the information in the environment. Adding stuff to pppd would just be bloat, and more code generally means more bugs.
KISS.
and I'm sure something could be hacked together for a few special cases, but it's likely a complicated problem to solve _well_.
Indeed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
