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 17:40:34
Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk> writes:
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > The idea of a completely userspace ppp has been shot down every time
> > it's been brought up, actually, for the past N years.  This is not a new
> > thing :-)
> 
> *sigh*. It'll make a nice package.

WHY?

I've asked several times, and you haven't answered: What is it that
this userland PPP does that our kernel version does not do? You keep
saying "compression" but we have compression. What is different here?

Perry