Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:09:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: The sppp driver Message-ID: <199910291409.PAA00675@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:41:57 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281440340.11610-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Indeed :-) Watch this space !
> of course if you want to be really generic,
> we've just added the netgraph code to -current which implements a lot more
> than the rather specialised sppp code.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> > (It would be nice if you formatted your message with line breaks.)
> >
> > "Daniel Hilevich" <danhil@cwnt.com> wrote:
> >
> > > But, in the later case, the control messages are = queued to the
> > > control queue=20 (sp->pp_cpq) which the if_start functions doesn't
> > > have access to. Should = I implement the access?
> >
> > Nothing you gotta worry about. The control queue is only there in
> > order to get higher priority for control packets than for data
> > packets, in an attempt to speedup control negotiations for interfaces
> > that are `dial on demand' (i. e., have LINK1 set). This is opaque to
> > the `customer' of sppp.
> >
> > > - How do you recommend connecting my ioctrl functions to the sppp ioctrl =
> > > function
> >
> > Have a look at the current `customers' for sppp, which are
> > sys/i4b/driver/i4b_sppp.c (for a driver that uses dialup connections),
> > and sys/i386/isa/if_{ar,cx,sr}.c for drivers that use hardware links
> > (like HDLC lines) without dialling.
> >
> > > - Is there any resource about using the sppp driver. The sppp man page =
> > > isn't satisfying at all.
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > > ------=_NextPart_000_01C7_01BF09C7.C5ECB6F0
> > > Content-Type: text/html;
> > > charset="windows-1255"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > Please don't do this.
> >
> > --
> > cheers, J"org
> >
> > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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