Distributed.Net's RC5 client (usually) knows when the ppp0 (for example) connection is alive so that it can exchange packets with its server.
How?
And along the same lines: Injoy knows when a client wants access to the Internet. Again, how?
Thursday November 22 2001 08:16, you wrote to ALL:
Distributed.Net's RC5 client (usually) knows when the ppp0 (for example) connection is alive so that it can exchange packets with its server.
How?
Hmm, don't know. :-/
And along the same lines: Injoy knows when a client wants access to the 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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