On 24-Jul-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe that the quick answer to your question is "yes...but-".
> There are a number of situations where ppp is being used "over top" of
> various network layers rather than a serial port driver. The most familiar
> (to me) case is PopTop (www.mortonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html), where ppp is
> implemented over top of tcp and GRE (IP protocol 47). Perhaps you might
> want to look at the source for that to give you an idea of what (if
> anything) you need to include in your custom driver to emulate the
> interface needed by ppp. Good luck.
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, John F Davis wrote:
>> Is it possible to run PPP on a non serial port char device driver? I have
>> written a simplistic device driver which
>> allows communication between two processors on a pci bus. I want to make
>> the connection act like a network layer and
>> I was thinking the easiest thing to do would get ppp working.
>>
>> Any ideas on this?
Or use SLIP (slattach), that's much simpler and has the same basic
functionality. I've used it myself in a non-standard way (but still throu
serial ports).
/Stefan
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