Re: RFC: PPP over X

[Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jamal writes:
 > 
 > mitch> I agree, especially if you're running a PPPoE session server, where
 > mitch> you need hundreds of simultaneous sessions demuxed.
 > mitch>
 > 
 > You just need to be able to select and/or poll; you dont necessarily need
 > sockets for that

I think the bigger issue there is that in such a situation it may not
be feasible to maintain a unique character device for each connection.
If you've got connections going up and down constantly it could be a
real hassle to try to match and bind them to character devices.

Socket's are ideal for this kind of thing since you don't need to
translate from the network-level naming (stuff that can be done with a
sockaddr) and character device naming in the file system.  Since any
sort of PPPoX code must be able to keep track of multiple connections
using an addressing/naming scheme unique to "X", using sockets with
an appropriately defined sockaddr derivative appears to be the natural
thing to do.

Michal Ostrowski
mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx