Re: SyncPPP vs. ppp_synctty

[Mårten Wikström <marten.wikstrom@xxxxxxx>]

mån 2001-10-15 klockan 17.24 skrev Krzysztof Halasa:
> "Wikström, Mårten" <Marten.Wikstrom@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > But the ppp_generic requires a tty device, i.e. is character-oriented, where
> > as the syncppp is network-oriented. Aren't they fundamentally different. How
> > can they be merged? Wouldn't that require the network card to emulate a tty?
> 
> PPP as a whole _is_ network-oriented. generic_ppp currently needs
> a tty device, but I think it just should be changed to provide PPP
> services to existing network devices as well.

Then we are talking about at major change in ppp_generic, since it
relies quite heavily on the tty paradigm. Or am I wrong?

/Mårten