From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 4 21:32:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02F4037B96F; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 21:32:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (3596 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 06:32:46 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id 84D2336AB; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 06:32:45 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing) In-Reply-To: <200003042243.XAA82879@saturn.kn-bremen.de> from Juergen Lock at "Mar 4, 0 11:43:07 pm" To: nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de (Juergen Lock) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 06:32:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2559 Message-Id: <20000305053245.84D2336AB@hcswork.hcs.de> From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > should at least help if the other end is running bsd or linux, > but if your other end is something like an ascend or an external > router (zyxel, cisco(?), there are probably more that speak this > protocol), you'd want stac lzs (rfc1974), or if its a wintendo box > even you'd want M$' special version of that (yes of course they > invented their own `standard' again.) So my question is, is > anyone working on this? There is (alpha) code that does this on > linux, > > http://www.ibh-dd.de/~beck/stuff/lzs4i4l/ I've looked at that. Its very Linux-centric and i gave up for the moment when i realized how much work it would be to port it. Brian's ppp over i4b does support deflate compression and i get very good results out of it - too good to put more work into the above URL. > today... impressive stuff.) and is someone working on linking i4b > and netgraph? There will be a netgraph node interface which will link an i4b B-channel to netgraph. There are no plans from my side to netgraphify the D-channel part of i4b. > that seems to be the logical way to do more complex > stuff like this aodi thing that e.g. the german Telekom wants to use > for their low-bandwidth 10 DEM/month isdn `flatrate' which they plan to > introduce around the end of the year. (and _if_ this really works it > sure will become pretty popular over here as long as all the other `real' > flatrates are still in the 100 DEM or more range... :/ ) this seems to > be the current draft: - this "flatrate" will only be available to T-Online customers. Since i'm not such a beast and will probably never become one its of not much use for me. - my usage of the internet is not much compatible with what this "flatrate" offers. - the Telecom does not give away anything for free. Check when, why and most important how you are using the internet: the savings you get using this "flatrate" does not pay even a fraction of the time and work needed to implement this - in my eyes. Anyway, i will happily accepting (clean) code which implements it :-) hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message