Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:23:43 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, archie@alpo.whistle.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701160023.AAA15155@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:09:34 PST." <199701150509.VAA20578@bubba.whistle.com>
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> > If it's got Charles Mott's alias stuff in it, it should be worth replacing
> > usr.sbin/ppp with it - it would be nice to have both in the same program ;)
> > If it hasn't, I'd be happy to merge them.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't...
>
> In which case this effort might be better spent porting the alias
> stuff to divert(4) sockets, instead of a user-mode ppp daemon. Then
> it will be more generally useful, since plenty of folks will probably
> want to stick with ppp (instead of mpd).
>
> I'd be happy to advise, though it shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> MHO,
> -Archie
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.
BTW, how does mpd do its load balancing ? Does it just send packets to the interface with the smallest buffer queue ?
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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