On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:13:57AM +0100, fabrizio.gennari@philips.com wrote: > I was wondering whether the socket architecture could be modified in order > to support PPP connections over a generic socket (of type SOCK_DGRAM or > SOCK_SEQPACKET), by mapping each PPP packet to a socket packet. This idea > is not completely new: somebody raised is in the past, see for example > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg00180.html or > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg01127.html . vtun already provides this capability in user space. (See http://vtun.sourceforge.net/) ppp(8) on *BSD also provides this capability in user space as well. As memory serves PPPoE on Linux is partially implemented in userspace as is, so a partial user space solution for PPPoUDP shouldn't be that wretched. -- Chris Dukes "Bert is apparently EEEEVIL, whereas Oscar is just a sysadmin^Wgrouch." -- gorski - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
