From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 21:57:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA09999 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA09975 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA14394; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:09:55 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:09:55 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Archie Cobbs cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: <199701150509.VAA20578@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > > 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). And some might want to run alias stuff over ethernet or other, and not want ppp at all. Danny