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From: ome ome <olivmet@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: MPD and Mysterious socket node
To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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OK, but why don't you use the socket node used for MPD
and connected to the PPP node ?
Is it for make a cleaner code or is there a specific
reason ? 

--- Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> wrote:
> ome ome writes:
> > What is the aim of the socket node in MPD which
> appear
> > when i establish a pppoe session and the link
> becomes UP?
> > It is the one which is created at the same time of
> the
> > pppoe node and which disapear when the link is
> down.
> 
> The pppoe device layer in mpd needs to talk to the
> ng_pppoe node.
> The only way for a user process to talk to other
> netgraph nodes
> is by using an ng_socket(4) node.
> 
> -Archie
> 
>
__________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *    
> http://www.packetdesign.com
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