RADIUS and mgetty

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Hi,

On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 11:33:30PM +0200, wim@djo.wtm.tudelft.nl wrote:
> > Indeed.  This can be done by "cnd-program" - mgetty runs this to help
> > deciding "shall I pick up this incoming call".
> 
> I do have a request on a topic I haven't seen discussed yet..
> I'd like to set the rings= parameter on the fly, determined by the caller ID.
> (Anonymous calls must be serviced as soon as possible, some others must not
>  be serviced at all, and some others must get a reasonable (long) time before
>  vgetty answers them.)

This will be there, as soon as I come around to rewrite the RING
handler, and implement the new cnd-program interface.  It has been 
discussed here, and I see the need for it, I just didn't find time yet.

> First problem I see is that cnd-program gets launched after rings=xx has
> been reached. If cnd-program could augment that value, it would be called
> again later on, which would have no use.

The idea is "call cnd-program immediately, and have it return a code 
that means 'no decision yet, ask me again later'".

gert
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