Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:00:10 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: oppermann@pipeline.ch, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgraph sync card success.. Message-ID: <199901272200.OAA15535@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990127134214.10452M-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jan 27, 99 01:44:29 pm"
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Julian Elischer writes: > > > Anyway, how do I run SyncPPP on that? > > > > You can use the new version of mpd (coming soon :-) to run > > PPP over any netgraph setup. It's not released yet because > > I want to add a bunch more documentation first... but if > > you don't care about that I can send you a copy. > > It should be possible to use the ppp nodes under some situations > should it not? I'm not a PPP guru, but what would be needed to add simple > sync ppp support using only ng nodes? Yes, that will be the next step.. that is, mpd will be updated in two steps: 1 mpd that still uses the tunnel interface, but understands netgraph nodes (so packets still leave the kernel, but at least each packet is read a whole packet at a time instead of little bits at a time (even for async PPP over serial ports)) This is done, it just wants to have some more documentation. 2 mpd that knows how to create and setup the ng_ppp(8), ng_vjc(8), and ng_iface(8) nodes as appropriate. Then it would no longer use the tunnel interface, and IP packets would never leave the kernel. This shouldn't take too long to write. Step 1 will be release real soon now :-), step 2 as soon as I can write it. Step 3 is to write netgraph nodes for the various PPP compression and encryption types. As these things get written they can migrate from user-space to kernel space. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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