From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 23:41:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA6B14E3A; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA22259; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:41:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00420; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:03:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910040603.HAA00420@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel Hilevich" Cc: "John Hay" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, ppp/sync project Subject: Re: A bug in the sppp driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:50:47 BST." <049401bf0b20$e3621c20$2e00a8c0@nt46daniel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:03:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Are you busy with a leased line driver or a dialup/isdn kind of driver? > > I have been busy fixing sppp to work properly with leased line drivers > > again, but am not finished with it yet. :-/ Hopefully I won't break > > the isdn handling at the same time. > > > > I'm writing this pseudo driver with lots of interfaces. Each interface can > be configured to work with a variety of protocols. Currently I'm working on > the connection to the PPP protocol. [.....] You may want to mention this to phk (cc'd). He's done some uncommitted work with a standardised synchronous device interface. The bit I'm interested in is the ioctl() that'll let me know it's a sync device... then ppp/tty.c:tty_Create() can automatically talk to it properly :-) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message