Subj : PPPx, LANx activity.
To   : Ian Moote
From : Ferdinand Grassmann
Date : Thu Nov 22 2001 11:30 pm

Hi Ian!

Thursday November 22 2001 08:16, you wrote to ALL:

IM> Distributed.Net's RC5 client (usually) knows when the ppp0 (for example)
IM> connection is alive so that it can exchange packets with its server.
IM> How?

Hmm, don't know. :-/

IM> And along the same lines: Injoy knows when a client wants access to the
IM> Internet. Again, how?

IIRC InJoy sets the default route to a fake IP that is "assigned" to the serial
device it uses for connecting to the Internet. If a program wants to access a
computer that has an IP address not existing in your (sub-)net, the request is
forwarded to this IP (111.222.111.222 IIRC), and triggers the InJoy DoD
feature. So this is simply a question of routing.

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