Subject: Re: synchronous ppp driver
To: Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@imag.fr>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/18/1996 13:11:05
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:19:59 +0200 
 "Alain Durand" <Alain.Durand@imag.fr> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I'm looking for a synchronous ppp driver for sparc.
> Has anybody developped it? how different will it be from a asynchronous one?
> 
[ick catching up on old mail.]

MorningStar make an sync/async PPP. When I worked at Demon Internet
they ported to NetBSD for us. We used the MorningStar Snaplink as an sync
serial port, works well upto about 1M. After than the load that the 
userland PPP generates makes the box useless.

Neil.
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