From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 23 11:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D804015703 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA13632; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA11208; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:27:14 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA03350; Thu, 23 Sep 99 11:40:29 PDT Message-Id: <37EA741C.F05D96BC@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:40:28 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Hilevich Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using the ppp driver References: <03f401bf05f1$9be7cc20$2e00a8c0@nt46daniel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Daniel Hilevich wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to write a driver which sends ppp packets through the ethernet > NIC. In order avoid implementing all the ppp protocol I want to use the > existing ppp driver in FreeBSD. Is there a way to send to the ppp driver > data and get it back covered with the appropriate ppp frame? The user-mode ppp system in FreeBSD can already do this, if you want to skip implementing ANY of ppp. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message