Subject: Re: Userland PPP
To: dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/18/1999 02:34:43
dustin sallings writes:
>
> I've run userland ppp in NetBSD. I can't remember why, but I had
> a reason at one point. I can't think of a good reason to run userland
> ppp. It's *by far* more efficient in the kernel, and all of the rest of
> the network interfaces are in the kernel, so I don't see what's wrong with
> it.
I'd like to run PPP over an ip connection. In particular over a port
redirected via ssh to a machine at work. Our current pppd will only
run over a tty device, AFAICT. If it is possible to run ppp over a
socket without the userland ppp implementation, I would like to know
about it!
-Andrew
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