From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 23:46:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA14606 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA14600 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.4/8.7.3) id IAA05904; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:47:01 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199701150747.IAA05904@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Callaghan at "Jan 15, 97 05:09:55 pm" To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:46:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..