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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: De-orbitting ATM-HARP
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:40:55AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> BMS>Oh. Don't remove that. Userland PPP needs it. People who are using ADSL
> BMS>modems of any kind will still need it.
> Does it really use socket(AF_ATM, ... or socket(AF_NATM, ...? Any chance 
> to convert this to netgraph sockets?

It uses an AF_NATM socket. I believe we probably could do a conversion to
use ng_atm quite easily, and for the ATM case that would certainly be
desirable, however there are then the issues of making /usr/sbin/ppp
dependent on libnetgraph.so, will the original author/maintainer be happy
with such a change, and so on.

BMS