Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:46:53 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701150747.IAA05904@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970115170907.213i-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Jan 15, 97 05:09:55 pm"
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In reply to Daniel O'Callaghan who wrote:
> 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.
Be carefull with that, if you use "real" ethernet having this outside the
kernel poses some real performance problems (been there, tried that).
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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