Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:41:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The sppp driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281440340.11610-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199910282015.WAA01594@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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of course if you want to be really generic,
we've just added the netgraph code to -current which implements a lot more
than the rather specialised sppp code.
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, J Wunsch wrote:
> (It would be nice if you formatted your message with line breaks.)
>
> "Daniel Hilevich" <danhil@cwnt.com> wrote:
>
> > But, in the later case, the control messages are = queued to the
> > control queue=20 (sp->pp_cpq) which the if_start functions doesn't
> > have access to. Should = I implement the access?
>
> Nothing you gotta worry about. The control queue is only there in
> order to get higher priority for control packets than for data
> packets, in an attempt to speedup control negotiations for interfaces
> that are `dial on demand' (i. e., have LINK1 set). This is opaque to
> the `customer' of sppp.
>
> > - How do you recommend connecting my ioctrl functions to the sppp ioctrl =
> > function
>
> Have a look at the current `customers' for sppp, which are
> sys/i4b/driver/i4b_sppp.c (for a driver that uses dialup connections),
> and sys/i386/isa/if_{ar,cx,sr}.c for drivers that use hardware links
> (like HDLC lines) without dialling.
>
> > - Is there any resource about using the sppp driver. The sppp man page =
> > isn't satisfying at all.
>
> See above.
>
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> Please don't do this.
>
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
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