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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router 
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:23:43 +0000
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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[.....]
> > 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).
> 
> I'd be happy to advise, though it shouldn't be too difficult.
> 
> MHO,
> -Archie

Do you mean that mpd isn't configurable as a single-line ppp daemon ?  I was thinking along the lines of it being a user-land ppp that can sit on a variable number of serial lines.

BTW, how does mpd do its load balancing ?  Does it just send packets to the interface with the smallest buffer queue ?

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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