From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 14:42: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFFF153EF for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA48420; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:41:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The sppp driver In-Reply-To: <199910282015.WAA01594@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" 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. > > > ------=_NextPart_000_01C7_01BF09C7.C5ECB6F0 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="windows-1255" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > 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. ;-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message