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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:39:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_sppp is BROKEN!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.981213203746.8863C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <8711.913504842@critter.freebsd.dk>

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how about porting the whole shebang to whistle's 'streams'
replacement..
we could probably supply the frame relay and ppp packetizer nodes along
with the framework and tools...
s


On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 
> I think I have finally found out what the problem is with the state
> machine in the if_sppp implementation.  Whoever wrote the implementation
> didn't carefully consider the inter-layer calls tls and tlf.
> 
> If one applies a lot of patches like this one:
> 
>                 case STATE_OPENED:
> -                       (cp->tld)(sp);
>                         sp->rst_counter[cp->protoidx] = 0;
>                         sppp_cp_change_state(cp, sp, STATE_STOPPING);
> +                       (cp->tld)(sp);
>                         goto sta;
>                         break;
> 
> Then things actually start to make sense...
> 
> The problem is that the tld and tlf functions often just call the
> pp_up and pp_down routines directly, and therefore most if not all
> of the expected up and down events happen in the previous state
> as opposed to the next state.
> 
> Flipping it around like I have done above, on the other hand, may
> not be a good idea either, since it means we can nest another layer
> on the stack and get somewhat confused on the way down.
> 
> It is quite obvious that this will need some more work to sort out,
> anybody interested in participating ?
> 
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
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