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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router
In-Reply-To: <199701150106.BAA18074@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Jan 15, 97 01:06:11 am"
To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:09:34 -0800 (PST)
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> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/mpd-1.01a1.tgz
> > > >  and
> > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/mpd-1.01a1.README  (included
> > > > below)
> > > 
> > > Any objections to a merge into 3.0-current ?
> > > 
> > well, there is a new version coming out within a day or two.
> > it's also a duplicate of the ppp daemon to some extent.
> 
> If it's got Charles Mott's alias stuff in it, it should be worth replacing 
> usr.sbin/ppp with it - it would be nice to have both in the same program ;)
> If it hasn't, I'd be happy to merge them.

Unfortunately, it doesn't...

In which case this effort might be better spent porting the alias
stuff to divert(4) sockets, instead of a user-mode ppp daemon. Then
it will be more generally useful, since plenty of folks will probably
want to stick with ppp (instead of mpd).

I'd be happy to advise, though it shouldn't be too difficult.

MHO,
-Archie

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