Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761266AbYGCM7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753014AbYGCM7M (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:59:12 -0400 Received: from mailer2.option.com ([81.246.70.163]:28546 "EHLO mailer2.option.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752481AbYGCM7L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:59:11 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3605 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:59:10 EDT X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8AAChUbEgKAAAZ/2dsb2JhbAAIsgk X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: tcp/ip connect on demand Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:29:03 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: tcp/ip connect on demand Thread-Index: Acjc//9kejefbADtTy6ghWMGQ9Adrg== From: "Jens-Michael Hoffmann" To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 19 hi, what is the right way to implement a "connect on demand" feature? Example: user types url in firefox and presses return. Then the system should set up network devices and proceed as usual. Is there a hook in the kernel we can use? Best regards Jens-Michael Hoffmann ps: please cc me in replies since I'am not subscribed with this email. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/