Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:01:14 +0400 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, mpd-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: Mpd-4.2 released. Message-ID: <1183014074.1329.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46819834.4030608@freebsd.org> References: <468135BF.8010407@freebsd.org> <46814B21.5060800@elischer.org> <46819834.4030608@freebsd.org>
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=F7 =D3=D2, 27/06/2007 =D7 01:50 +0300, Alexander Motin =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > There has been some talk about whether mpd should be put in the base=20 > > system to replace our 3 other ppp implementations. I guess one step=20 > > would be to see what the usage cases would be for replacing if_ppp and=20 > > sppp and a first step > > would be to see how many users of these there are. >=20 > As I see situation now: > ppp - good user-level implementation. Not very fast, but stable,=20 > flexible and able to be used with other programs like pppoed. > pppd - outdated many years. In theory can be fast with modem links,=20 > but who need them now? If used with other programs like poptop will=20 > loose it's performance to ppp level due to context switches. > sppp - outdated too, but I have never used it. Is there anything=20 > except ISDN using it? In my country ISDN is mostly out of use now. > mpd - very fast and functional solution. But it is a daemon with=20 > limited abilities to be used by other software like getty or some=20 > wrappers like pppoed for ppp or GUIs like kppp. There are also some ppp(d)-based programs in tree, like rfcomm_pppd (bluetooth modem connection), which behave like ppp/pppd. just one more notice --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@fbsd.ru
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