Am 15.08.2012 08:20, schrieb Marcel Holtmann: > Hi James, > >>> Can somebody help me with this. Is there any pppd library already >>> available? >> >> To my knowledge, it's never been done. When I was with a start-up many >> years ago, I did modify the code so that it could handle multiple links >> at once, because we scaled to many thousands of links, but I still did >> the control and monitoring through an IPC. (No, I don't have that code >> ... it went with the start-up. :-<) > > we have written PPP from scratch for the oFono project for exactly the > same reason. We needed something in form of a library and not a daemon. > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/ofono/ofono.git > > Look under gatchat directory. > > Especially when it comes to intermixing of 3GPP 27.007 and 27.010 with > PPP for online mode, the current pppd causes too much overhead. It is > not only that you have to spawn the pppd process and its extra plugin > for handling feedback. You also need to have a TTY or PTY to use it. And > that was causing overhead that was not acceptable to us. > hi, The question is do they need ppp at all ? I certainly has advantages to use tcp/ip but it is no requirement is several cases. Going with a more simple protocol can reduce the overhead considerable. re, wh -- 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
