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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD...
To: geoff@ginsu.com (Geoff Wells)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:56:07 -0600 (CST)
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> Did you get a chance to look at Multilink PPP (RFC 1717)?

No.

> I took a look at this exact same thing (and for the same reasons :).  
> This is what 3com (and may be Ascend) uses in thier ISDN routers to 
> handle two B channels.
> 
> Geoff.

> > What I did learn:
> > 
> > 1) BSDI has something called "mslip" which is basically what we are
> >    discussing.
> > 2) With user-level PPP one would think that this might be more feasible
> >    since you can hack easily...  but I doubt anyone's done this.
> > 
> > If I were to start pursuing this, I might be tempted to start with the
> > latter  :-)

That's one reason I suggested I might be tempted to start with the latter.
:-)  That, and it's easier to hack on.  It's one interface at the system
level.

... JG