From owner-freebsd-isdn Wed Mar 8 17:59:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-97.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C54837B6FD; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA03755; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 01:10:03 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11664; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:12:17 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200003081912.TAA11664@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Archie Cobbs 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) In-Reply-To: Message from Archie Cobbs of "Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:36:42 PST." <200003071836.KAA41919@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:12:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message