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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.
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