Re: RFC: PPP over X

[Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Serving up connections on such a scale brings up some issues.  Most
> importantly, there should be a single process which negotiates all
> incoming connections.

That's true - ideally I'd like to see pppd look more like apache.
Most of the gloabal varaiables could move to a "struct atm_instance"
and each one would have its own ppp options, plugins, etc.
Ideally there would be some way to add/delete/tweek these
connections on a running pppd (so you could have a nice little
GNOME configuration dialog giving you instant-gratification
changes)

I think this would be a really great approach for people
running terminal-servers or PPPo{E,ATM} concentrators using
linux.  At some point the "thousands of pppd processes" model
breaks down - it would be much cleaner just to have a single
process that just needs to set a bunch of async-io signals
on a bunch of {sockets,ttys} and watch /dev/ppp0.

-Mitch