Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:56:05 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's? Message-ID: <19981004195605.B11665@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:38:29PM -0500 References: <199810040102.SAA24516@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <15999.907467224@time.cdrom.com> <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com>
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In <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 03), Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > > NetBSD uses in-kernel PPP, not userland PPP. pppd(8) does the PPP > > > connection setup, and control messages, and stuff... but framing et > > > al are all handled in the kernel by if_ppp.c > > > > > > Note that the PPP package we use also supports demand-dial and whatnot. > > > > Hmmm. Sounds like we really need to integrate NetBSD's kernel ppp > > code sometime. :-) If nothing else, it would greatly assist us in > > creating stand-alone ppp router floppies. > > ummm > > They're already the same code, Jordan :) There's pretty much one pppd > version, based at ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ . 2.3.5 was > brought into both 2.2.* and 3.* in June, and claims to do demand-dial > and filtering like user-ppp. It still requires an external chat > program, and doesn't have interactive/online configuration like > user-ppp does though. Last time I looked, the "official" pppd didn't support dial-on-demand, while the NetBSD did at the same time. Maybe "someone" can arrange a full feature-backfeeded pppd distribution we can all use? [not me, don't have a clue about networking] Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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