From owner-freebsd-isdn Tue Aug 18 13:02:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17755 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17743 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc2.ppp.net [194.64.12.42]) by mail.ppp.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA15586 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:02:02 +0200 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0z8rxB-002ZjZC; Tue, 18 Aug 98 22:02 MET DST Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:41:36 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #3 built 1998-Feb-14) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:41:36 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #1 built 1998-Jun-6) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Problems with ppp and idletimeout In-Reply-To: <35D9A659.85BF0472@nl.compuware.com> from Bert Driehuis at "Aug 18, 98 06:05:45 pm" To: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG (ISDN for BSD) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bert Driehuis wrote: > Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > > > Which creates another idea: > > I'd like to see an interface where the hdlc level is provided to other kernel > > modules, so that, e.g., I could do: This interface exists (/dev/i4brbch, rbch = Raw B-CHannel access) in a rudimentary form. > > Of course, this is a long-term goal; the async ppp stuff would need to be split > > up, too. OTOH, it is (or was originally) designed to have such an interface. > > > > This way, isdn people could benefit from whatever work is already available > > in the PPP module, and concentrate on debugging the difficult stuff. > > This, matter of fact, is how my BISDN driver for BSD/OS worked (and what I > plan on doing for the ISDN4BSD port to BSD/OS). In theory, this would take > advantage of BSD/OS's exisiting support for e.g. channel bundling. Haven't > tried it though... Eivind Eklund is working on interfacing the multilink PPP daemon with the rbch interface(s). hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe A duck is like a bicycle because they both have two wheels except the duck (terry@cs.weber.edu) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message