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