From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 21:58:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00306 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (lupine.nsi.nasa.gov [198.116.2.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA00301 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:58:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mnewell@localhost) by lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA14492; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:55:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:55:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" To: Nate Williams cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp In-Reply-To: <199601120522.WAA23433@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > Nope. I got a predictor-1 module from the Linux author which is > *extremely* Linux-centric. It also has some patent problems with the > CRC algorithm it uses (which is why it's not distributed publically), so > I hope to use it as a basis for bringing into our pppd, using the > predictor-1 module out of ijppp. Is the module in ijppp also encumbered? > > If the person doing the predictor-1 stuff needs help/testers, please > > lemme know!! :-) > > If you think you could do the work, I could send you the module. > However, I'm not allowed to post it publically. I'm not sure I will be able to do it, but I'm really interested in getting better throughput so I'm willing to give it a stab. Is there a reference I can go to for information about predictor-1? None of the texts I have mention it, nor have I been able to find references in the last few months worth of journals I get... > It's a bug in FreeBSD handling of external ARP, and not a bug in PPP. > Unfortunately, I'm now kernel hacker and none of the network gurus are > interested in helping me fix the problem. :( Still it would be nice to see the problem documented in maybe the FAQ (although for all I know it may already be; I've not looked at that particular part of the docs in a while since my ppp link has been humming along quite well for a couple of months now!! :-) Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | work: http://www.eco.nsi.nasa.gov/~mnewell | | home: http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+