From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 16:30:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03011065678 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:30:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FAF8FC30 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:30:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC12112978; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:30:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:30:49 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: fbnJRxRZwnn1xA8VvaQ3NCE7RrXveyR5ytY2Uox5SlII 1212510649 Received: from empiric.lon.incunabulum.net (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DEAA31E4CC; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:30:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <484571B7.1050004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:30:47 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080514) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com References: <853261.35086.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <853261.35086.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Anyone interested in HDLC support for pppd ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:30:50 -0000 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello; > > I started playing a bit with net/pppd23 and I noticed there are some patches for FreeBSD-3.0 that were never committed (NetBSD certainly has them). Our pppd(8) is derived from the "samba" pppd port and should have them if we want to continue updating it. > Ed Schouten is currently rewriting the tty code. It sounds like line disciplines are about to go away, so pppd23 will most likely stop working at that point. There's a Netgraph node ng_cisco which claims to support HDLC. Perhaps tweaking MPD to work with it is a better use of effort.