From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 6 16:27: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A94537B4D7 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA70O3T02524; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:24:03 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA70OQT49433; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:24:27 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200011070024.eA70OQT49433@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Brian Smith" Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP over ATM In-Reply-To: Message from "Brian Smith" of "Sun, 22 Oct 2000 09:42:34 CDT." <20001022142434.PALM1100.mailhost.chi.ameritech.net@bbs.dbsoft-consulting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 00:24:26 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to chime in so late, but ppp(8) already has ATM support... I must confess that I haven't tested it and don't know how it works, but it may be worth looking at. A netgraph node would definitely be preferable. > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:41:27 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >>>>Who knows about the ATM stuff in the kernel? > >>> > >>>We have two ATM stacks: > >>> * The minimalist "chuck" stack. > >>> * The full-blown HARP stack. > >>> > >>>Neither support netgraph. > >> > >>Are you aware of any efforts to add PPP over ATM or Netgraph > >>support to the current ATM code? > > > >I'm not aware of any activity in the ATM code at all... > > Ok, well if I were to netgraphify the ATM code, would mpd be sufficient > to get PPP over ATM working? (I have a lot of reading up to do, but > if I can decide on the correct direction to start off in I could save myself > alot of time ;)). And for the record I have done ethernet drivers in Linux > and OS/2. But I am quite unfamiliar with the FreeBSD networking code. > I have only submitted patches to the kernel for cyrix code optimizations. :) > > I looked into netgraph and it seems to be a very modular and a wise > approach to take if it sufficient for this purpose. > > Brian Smith -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message