Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:46:03 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Message-ID: <4563.823088763@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "31 Jan 1996 09:23:13 GMT." <peter.823080193@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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> We (the company I work for) use Stallion's sync cards on our SVR4 machines. > It does most the HDLC framing and cooking on-board. In that particular > case, we hacked pppd so that it didn't push the asyhdlc STREAMS module > onto the stack, and fed the hdlc frames _directly_ into the ppp module > with no encoding/decoding required at all. It's really cool when STREAMS > works the way it was intended to. ;-) And that is exactly what it's meant for: async character based io. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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