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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:36:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de (Juergen Lock)
Cc:        julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), hm@hcs.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)
Message-ID:  <200003071836.KAA41919@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000305190214.B16881@saturn.kn-bremen.de> from Juergen Lock at "Mar 5, 2000 07:02:15 pm"

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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.

-Archie

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