ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Don't know whether it is the right term but what would be >desirable is a way to raise priority of certain protocols, and >lower e.g. ftp, http and such. > >You know what I mean? You are fetching a big file, but wanna do >an rlogin at the same time. I'm d

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > > to add a negraph interface to the B channels should be quite easy. > > If you need help I can prbably almost do most of it.. > > Its already in the development sources (Archie had a look at it already) > and it works with mppd. It was really quite easy, although if

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
Juergen Lock writes: > > when this is done the netgraph PPP nodes (which can support > > these compression types will be usable. > > They could, but they don't yet, right? :) > > Maybe it still should be added to ijppp first cause debugging user > processes is easier than the kernel... and at

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-07 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I already have code for MPPC/MPPE, minus the proprietary STAC > code and the patented RC4 algorithm, I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked, and that the algorithm itself is not pa

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-07 Thread Archie Cobbs
John Polstra writes: > > I already have code for MPPC/MPPE, minus the proprietary STAC > > code and the patented RC4 algorithm, > > I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked, > and that the algorithm itself is not patented. Is that not the case? Oops, my mi

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-07 Thread Wes Peters
John Polstra wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I already have code for MPPC/MPPE, minus the proprietary STAC > > code and the patented RC4 algorithm, > > I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked, >

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-08 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
(CC: stripped) >From the keyboard of Archie Cobbs: > Here is my list of things that 'should be done' at some point: > > 1. Implement the various PPP compression types as netgraph nodes, > starting with Deflate, then maybe predictor-1, STAC (if we can > do it legally), and MPPC (sam

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-08 Thread Archie Cobbs
Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > > 2. We should come up with a 'standard' netgraph control message > > API for an ISDN basic rate interface, and have i4b implement > > this interface. Then mpd/ppp/etc can "know" this interface > > and therefore work automatically with any ISDN BRI de

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-08 Thread Brian Somers
> Juergen Lock writes: > > > when this is done the netgraph PPP nodes (which can support > > > these compression types will be usable. > > > > They could, but they don't yet, right? :) > > > > Maybe it still should be added to ijppp first cause debugging user > > processes is easier than the k

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Brian Somers
> And the last thing, is anyone working on moving more of ppp back > into the kernel, like, by using netgraph? (i hadn't really looked > at this netgraph thing yet until i read the daemonnews article > today... impressive stuff.) and is someone working on linking i4b > and netgraph? that seems

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
>From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > should at least help if the other end is running bsd or linux, > but if your other end is something like an ascend or a

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > >From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > > > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > > should at least help if the other end is running bsd or linux, > > but if your o

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
>From the keyboard of Julian Elischer: > > > today... impressive stuff.) and is someone working on linking i4b > > > and netgraph? > > > > There will be a netgraph node interface which will link an i4b B-channel > > to netgraph. There are no plans from my side to netgraphify the D-channel > >

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > Currently i'm using ppp instead of mppd mostly just because it supports > deflate compression. I had a look at both mppd and ppp to see how the > mentioned free stac compression would be integrateable and found them > both similar, given they both come from iijppp. It looks like if it we

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 06:32:45AM +0100, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > >From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > > > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > > should at least help if the other end is

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:31:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > > > >From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > > > > > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > > > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > > > s

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-14 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to John Polstra: > I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked, > and that the algorithm itself is not patented. Is that not the case? That's right. RC4 (aka arcfour in SSH) was a trade secret (so it was not patentable) till someone posted code implementing it