Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 16:42:42 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd vs ijppp Message-ID: <199601112142.QAA00244@etinc.com>
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>[ My last post on the subject, I promise! > >> >> >Or, we could all of those features in the kernel, increase your memory >> >> >use by a couple 100K (always, even if you don't use it), and it would >> >> >take us 6 months to get it working. :)' >> >> >> >> (*) Fine print. Per connection. Perhaps less than 5%. >> >> Your premise that you can't have your cake and eat it too is much more of >> a matter of a lack of design foresight than fact. There are clearly solutions >> which address both the functional and performance issues. The benefits >> of pppij can be integrated into a kernel ppp with gains rather than losses >> of overall appeal. > >If you look above, I admitted that those solutions *could* be integrated >into the kernel, but it would take time and memory. Maybe the memory >usage seems a bit excessive, but although it *could* be done in less >generally speaking the first version is always a pig. > >Since no-one around here has time to do the integration, it's not going >to get done unless you want to do given your well publicized experience >in doing such things. Then you can show us how easily and compactly it >can be done, and shut me up. :) of course my original question was if anyone was working on this currently (a simple question, i had thought)...... We made a corporate decision some time ago not to do software only solutions (as we had done before we built our sync boards) shortly after the theft to sales ratio topped 10 to 1. I suspect that the ratio of a ppp product might be more like 250 to 1. No thanks. Maybe when i retire and get tired of leisure activities...... dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25
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