From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 2 17:37:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14896 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14868 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09068; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:20:39 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA05399; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:21:15 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811030121.BAA05399@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Gunnar Olsson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPPP, multilink PPP In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:23:48 +0100." <19981102172348.46633@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 01:21:14 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message