Re: ISP Dialer Application question
Re: ISP Dialer Application question
- Subject: Re: ISP Dialer Application question
- From: Duane Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:20:27 -0700
--- At Wed, 15 May 2002 17:35:23 +0100, Andrew Preston wrote:
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I'm trying to scope out writing a dialer application to allow users to
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connect to various ISP's all over the world.
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I come from a Windows background and have little experience with mac
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architecture.
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What I would like to know is:
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[1] Is there an API to get the computer to dial, then start a PPP
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session. In windows this would be RasDial(...)? Does it provide status
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feedback??
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I am aware of OpenTransport but have very little knowledge at the mo. I
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would like to ensure that I do this the right way or as you could say
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the "mac" way!
IMHO, the Mac way would be not to write the dialer at all. Remote Access
is the Macintosh dialer. I would expect it pretty much does everything
that needs to be done.
That said, there are reasons to do one yourself. The primary one being
advertising and name recognition. Of course as a software guy, I find
little value in this, of course, companies think this is important. Oh well.
...Duane Murphy
Efficient Networks, Inc.
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http://www.efficient.com/>
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