Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 22:38:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is PPP now being used by all 3 *BSD's? Message-ID: <19981003223829.A27652@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <15999.907467224@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" on Sat Oct 3 19:13:44 GMT 1998 References: <199810040102.SAA24516@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <15999.907467224@time.cdrom.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 03), Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > NetBSD uses in-kernel PPP, not userland PPP. pppd(8) does the PPP > > connection setup, and control messages, and stuff... but framing et > > al are all handled in the kernel by if_ppp.c > > > > Note that the PPP package we use also supports demand-dial and whatnot. > > Hmmm. Sounds like we really need to integrate NetBSD's kernel ppp > code sometime. :-) If nothing else, it would greatly assist us in > creating stand-alone ppp router floppies. ummm They're already the same code, Jordan :) There's pretty much one pppd version, based at ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ . 2.3.5 was brought into both 2.2.* and 3.* in June, and claims to do demand-dial and filtering like user-ppp. It still requires an external chat program, and doesn't have interactive/online configuration like user-ppp does though. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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