Date: 18 Aug 1995 01:47:52 +0800 From: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd Message-ID: <40vvc8$hos$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <199508171335.GAA20286@time.cdrom.com>
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jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >I notice that pppd has now gone to revision 2.2 beta3, dated July 3rd >1995. Our own pppd is revision 2.1 dated the 9th of June 1994, over >a year earlier.. >The biggest difference I can see is that 2.2 supports some sort of >compression called "BSD-compress", whatever the heck that is.. There >may of course also be some bug fixes.. You figure in a year they might >have fixed a few things! :-) >Any reason why we shouldn't fold this in from the NetBSD-current sources? Yes.. The kernels are rapidly diverging in the tty area. I've done a port of 2.2b3 to -current, and have updated it with all (I think) of Bruce's changes. ppp-2.2 is going to be announced *tomorrow*.. I dont know if it'll compile out of the box on FreeBSD, as I didn't get the changes back to Paul Mackeras in time (had a trashed computer, which was rather inconvenient to say the least..). The earlier betas would not compile on *any* freebsd, because we do not have the #define __BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__ in <machine/types.h> via <sys/types.h>. I know Paul has got some more recent stuff from Bruce, but I dont know what or how much. Bruce and I never really found out why there was in *increase* in performance over the stuff currently in the kernel. I got an OK from Garrett (with conditions) and Davidg to bring it in earlier on, but had other things to worry about at the time... -Peter > Jordan
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