| To: | Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: RFC: PPP over X |
| From: | Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:13:04 +1100 |
| Cc: | Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>, jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>, Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Marc Boucher <marc@xxxxxxx>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Organization: | Linuxcare, Inc. |
| References: | <20000208020423.B53038@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > We definately want whatever the next PPP rewrite looks like to include some > mechanism for this (which is probably best described as PPP bridging). > I don't think we need a kernel thread to do it, either- you just need > to wire ppp_input() on one channel to ops->start_xmit() on the other, > perhaps with a small skb queue in the middle. So we have two ppp channels and an ioctl or something that says "connect these two channels to each other"? That wouldn't be too hard to do at all. -- Paul Mackerras, Senior Open Source Researcher, Linuxcare, Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 tel, +61 2 6262 8991 fax paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com.au/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. |
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