Re: SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Mcadams
Also sprach Paul Mackerras >Jeff Mcadams writes: >> Indeed. And let me just throw out another thought. A clean >> abstraction of the various portions of the PPP functionality is >> beneficial in other ways. My personal pet project being to add L2TP >> support to the kernel eventually. A good

Re: SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Mcadams
Also sprach Paul Mackerras Jeff Mcadams writes: Indeed. And let me just throw out another thought. A clean abstraction of the various portions of the PPP functionality is beneficial in other ways. My personal pet project being to add L2TP support to the kernel eventually. A good

Re: SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Jeff Mcadams writes: > Indeed. And let me just throw out another thought. A clean abstraction > of the various portions of the PPP functionality is beneficial in other > ways. My personal pet project being to add L2TP support to the kernel > eventually. A good abstraction of the framing

SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Fulghum
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I had hoped for 2.4 to use generic ppp with it. That might be the more > productive way to attack the problem. Generic PPP requires the user mode pppd to handle the LCP and NCPs, while syncppp implements these in the kernel. Instead of using ifconfig to

Re: SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
Jeff Mcadams writes: Indeed. And let me just throw out another thought. A clean abstraction of the various portions of the PPP functionality is beneficial in other ways. My personal pet project being to add L2TP support to the kernel eventually. A good abstraction of the framing

SyncPPP Generic PPP merge

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Fulghum
From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had hoped for 2.4 to use generic ppp with it. That might be the more productive way to attack the problem. Generic PPP requires the user mode pppd to handle the LCP and NCPs, while syncppp implements these in the kernel. Instead of using ifconfig to bring an