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To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
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Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards 
In-reply-to: Your message of "31 Jan 1996 09:23:13 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:46:03 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.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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