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Re: RFC: PPP over X

To: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: PPP over X
From: Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:16:45 -0600 (EST)
Cc: 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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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
then used ioctl's on the other technologies to attach their sockets to the
PPP devices.  An actual channel just implemented a few routines from the
PPP layer (like sending and hanging up the PPP channel).  In writing the
API, I also built up some linkage between channels to standardize how
multilink PPP would work, and I would suggest you do the same in your
design.

Mark


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