From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 17:57:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA17095 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA17090 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:57:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA10225; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma010223; Wed Jan 15 17:56:22 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA23576; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:56:22 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199701160156.RAA23576@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: <199701160143.BAA15211@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Jan 16, 97 01:43:00 am" To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:56:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: archie@whistle.com, julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, archie@alpo.whistle.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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