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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:12:07 +0000
From: Chris Dukes <pakrat@www.uk.linux.org>
To: fabrizio.gennari@philips.com
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Subject: Re: PPP over socket?
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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
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