On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:10, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > ppp_async includes some CRC support BUT it only supports > 'crc_ccitt_byte' which is a 16bit CRC. The problem now is, which > CRC32 needs to be suppported? according to CCITT versions according to the RFC1570. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check > > "there are three polynomials reported for CRC-12, thirteen > conflicting definitions of CRC-16, and six of CRC-32" > > the second problem is: if you want to add CRC32 support then you'd > have to get it into the linux kernel . that will take *quite* some > time (unless you can live with patched linux kernels). It wouldn't be so hard to push it to the kernel because Paul Mackerras is/was on this list and he is the ppp driver maintainer, I hope ;) -- Kind regards, Milan -------------------------------------------------- Arvanta, IT Security http://www.arvanta.net Please do not send me e-mail containing HTML code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
