From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 4 10:57:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02429 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02383 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id TAA11684; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:56:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981004195605.B11665@cons.org> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:56:05 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Dan Nelson , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jason Thorpe Cc: Open Systems Networking , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's? References: <199810040102.SAA24516@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <15999.907467224@time.cdrom.com> <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:38:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 03), Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > > NetBSD uses in-kernel PPP, not userland PPP. pppd(8) does the PPP > > > connection setup, and control messages, and stuff... but framing et > > > al are all handled in the kernel by if_ppp.c > > > > > > Note that the PPP package we use also supports demand-dial and whatnot. > > > > Hmmm. Sounds like we really need to integrate NetBSD's kernel ppp > > code sometime. :-) If nothing else, it would greatly assist us in > > creating stand-alone ppp router floppies. > > ummm > > They're already the same code, Jordan :) There's pretty much one pppd > version, based at ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ . 2.3.5 was > brought into both 2.2.* and 3.* in June, and claims to do demand-dial > and filtering like user-ppp. It still requires an external chat > program, and doesn't have interactive/online configuration like > user-ppp does though. Last time I looked, the "official" pppd didn't support dial-on-demand, while the NetBSD did at the same time. Maybe "someone" can arrange a full feature-backfeeded pppd distribution we can all use? [not me, don't have a clue about networking] Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message