Re: PPPkit 2.0 (was: Importance of "W" f

[q-funk@citenet.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >This is IP-masquerading and has absolutely nothing to do with
 >"multiuser".
 >IP-masquerading is highly welcome in MiNTnet, but as I said, it has
 >nothing to do with the "multiuser"-features that MiNTOS has.

Incidentally, I never mentioned multi-user a la UNIX myself.
I have discussed and requested IP masquerading capabilities.
Big difference. 
Remember that NOT everyone on this list is a Telnet freak. ;-)

 >> I am fully aware of Peter's efforts and I support them, but if
 >> this means clients written using those BSD extensions won't be
 >> able to work on STiK, then I won't use it for the STiK version.
 >
 >This depends on Dan Ackerman. ATM it doesn't look like he will
 >implement Peter's suggested improvements (which IMO is very
 >unfortunate.), if that is the case then clients compiled with Peter's
 >BSD-lib will only work with STinG.

Notice that STiNG's interface for ICMP and UDP was adopted by 
Dan and Martin for STiK 2.0 verbatim. STiNG's Transport.H can
therefore be considered as a STiK 1.13+ binding. I'll use that.


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