Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 01:21:14 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Gunnar Olsson <etxgnon@etxb.ericsson.se>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPPP, multilink PPP Message-ID: <199811030121.BAA05399@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:23:48 %2B0100." <19981102172348.46633@follo.net>
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> On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 02:14:03PM +0100, Gunnar Olsson wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > my name is Gunnar Olsson, working for Ericsson Research in Sweden.
> > We are looking on delay requirements for IP packets over PPP.
> > I want to segment long data packets on PPP level, to minimize
> > the "waiting time" for a real time packet. I was planning to use
> > the segmentation algorithm in Multilink PPP, MPPP.
> > For performance issue I am doing everything in kernel.
> > So, the question is, have someone implemented MPPP in kernel????
>
> There is no multilink implementation for the FreeBSD kernel, no.
>
> What you _could_ do is work with Brian to segregate the user-interface
> and the protocol handling in the userland PPP, making it possible to
> compile the protocol handling itself into the kernel. This could be
> very useful, as it provide a good development-environment (userland),
> while making it possible to exploit the performance boost of having
> the code in the kernel.
I'd be quite surprised if James Carlson (who I believe is the main
pppd engineer) hasn't at least got an MP implementation of pppd
underway.
> Eivind.
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