From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 29 18:31:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-23.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD6514F26 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA00682; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 01:44:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00675; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:09:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910291409.PAA00675@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: The sppp driver In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:41:57 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:09:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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. ;-) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message