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Re: RFC: PPP over X

To: Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: PPP over X
From: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:56:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>, Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxx, mitch@xxxxxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Marc Boucher <marc@xxxxxxx>, paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Mark Spencer writes:
 > I've been following your discussion for some time now.  The way I did PPP
 > generically when I implemented it long ago was with a character device.  I

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).

Michal Ostrowski
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