From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 21:06:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA23897 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:06:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA23878 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA27229; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:04:34 -0800 To: Scott Halbert cc: Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:49:34 MST." <199601300449.VAA01151@srv1.thuntek.net> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:04:34 -0800 Message-ID: <27227.822978274@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Yes. I don't do a lot of dialout yet, but I'd really like to see this > kind of thing in FreeBSD. Would it have to be patched into the user ppp > software, or as you said would it be done as a set of daemons? I was actually thinking of the daemons doing both. I'm still thinking about this, but the way I see it the system should be able to manage any number of serial ports directly and also talk to its brethren in implementing a larger shared pool of modems (if necessary). You would also be able to do group-wide validation of users and such, naturally. Jordan