Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
Jamal Hadi <hadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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> > In the long run, the right answer probably is to push the session management
> > out of the daemon and into the kernel.  Today the PPPoE code in the kernel
> > is only half-brained, it needs pppd to survive.
> >
> 
> I would think pppd is the half-brained portion ;->
> 
> Placing control protocols in the kernel is plain wrong.

What about arp, TCP, IP, routing protocols.  The problem is that state 
management
needs to be done in one place.