Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:12:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de (Juergen Lock), julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), hm@hcs.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing) Message-ID: <200003081912.TAA11664@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> of "Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:36:42 PST." <200003071836.KAA41919@bubba.whistle.com>
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> Juergen Lock writes:
> > > when this is done the netgraph PPP nodes (which can support
> > > these compression types will be usable.
> >
> > They could, but they don't yet, right? :)
> >
> > Maybe it still should be added to ijppp first cause debugging user
> > processes is easier than the kernel... and at the usual isdn bri
> > speeds a user process should still be pretty fast enough.
>
> That makes perfect sense.. just be sure to write the code so that
> it's easily ported to the kernel.. the main issues being mbuf's..
> for that it's probably eassiest to just punt and copy each packet
> into a contiguous buffer.
I've done a small amount of work on making ppp(8)-style mbufs look
more like real mbufs with this in mind. If I can bring the whole
interface in line, this problem will go away. Of course this'll
probably then introduce a compatibility problem with {Net,Open}BSD...
> -Archie
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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