Re: RFC: PPP over X

[Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Do you mean that the PPP daemon always negotiated PPP over a character 
> device?  I think we've reached a consensus that pppd should not assume 
> what kind of device it is negotiating over --- and leave that instead
> to one of the  plugins that knows all of the details (e.g.: setting up 
> PPP line discipline for modem connections).

pppd would run on /dev/ppp and would negotiate the PPP using that file
descriptor.  What would actually supply the PPP frames to the kernel (and
thus eventually to /dev/ppp) is up to the kernel driver.  

That's just how I did it.

Mark