Subject: Re: Userspace ppp (Was: Re: Ongoing projects)
To: Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/07/1999 18:36:39
Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk> writes:
> 	o It is transport neutral; TCP or serial line, it doesn't matter.

Why would one *want* to run ppp over a TCP connection? We have GRE and 
such already.

> 	o It supports the M$ extensions properly, including MS-CHAP,
> 	  which is basically essential in a M$ centric environment.
> 
> 	o It supports multilink PPP.

Those two look like legitimately missing features. We should add them.

> 	o It would be trivial to support synchronous framed protocols,
> 	  like true HDLC. This is useful for ISDN.

We have that already.

> 	o The configuration is a lot less cryptic than pppd(8), and can
> 	  be modified online.

Okay. We should work on our UI, then.

>         Each individual site that you define can
> 	  have a totally different configuration.

Ours will let you do that already.

> 	o The compression, for whatever reason, has proven itself
> 	  over the last year on all of the FreeBSD systems that I've
> 	  used it on to be superior to in-kernel ppp's.

That makes no sense. Algorithms are algorithms.

Perry