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Re: RFC: PPP over X

To: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: PPP over X
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:53:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxx, Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>, mitch@xxxxxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Marc Boucher <marc@xxxxxxx>, paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Michal Ostrowski wrote:

> So if you want to do PPP/UDP:
> 
>       socket(AF_INET,SOCK_PPP,IPPROTO_UDP);
> 
> As the "type" suggests, you get PPP semantics.
> 


There is a catch with this: You now have to muck with the
UDP kernel code to add L2TP semantics; most other people would probably
only want to use UDP as it is.

cheers

jamal



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