Re: /dev/ppp

daniel.marmier@lightning.ch
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:15:13 +0200


> Does anyone here know who registered /dev/ppp or if it is currently being
> used for anything? I would like to use it for my new generic PPP layer.

[Mark, please correct me if I'm wrong]

I suppose that /dev/ppp has been registered by Mark Spencer, who released a
first Generic PPP patch on 19982308. After some discussions with Mark, I took
over the development to add Multilink PPP functionality. I added support for
synchronous WAN adapters, too.

Did you have a look at my recent post on this list :
[PATCH] Generic PPP (highly experimental, long)
posted on 19991407 ?

What is your new generic PPP layer ? If our goals are the same, could we look
at this together to avoid a lot of duplicate effort ? After all, if those PPPs
are really that generic, why should there be two of them lying around ? :-)

Regards,

Daniel Marmier

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