Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:56:22 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Cc: archie@whistle.com, julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, archie@alpo.whistle.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701160156.RAA23576@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199701160143.BAA15211@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Jan 16, 97 01:43:00 am"
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> > > 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. > > > > No, what I meant was that mpd doesn't have Charles Mott's alias stuff in it. > > So if the alias stuff was merged, it would be a good replacement for > /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp ? I don't mind which way around the merge is done... > Armed with this sort of beast, it'll be interesting trying to get my ISP to > co-operate and give me a twice-the bandwidth-for-twice-the-price deal ;) IMHO, yes, but there may be a couple of problems if replacing ppp... - Not that many people are currently using mpd (as far as I can tell) - There's not a whole lot of documentation (though functionally it's pretty similar to ppp). Moreover, I don't think that IP alias stuff should be part of the PPP daemon.. it would be just as easy to make it a separate daemon using divert(4) sockets. Then you can use it with any ppp code and on any interface (though prolly too slow for Ethernet). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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