Alexander Motin wrote:
As I see situation now:
ppp - good user-level implementation. Not very fast, but stable,
flexible and able to be used with other programs like pppoed.
possibly there could be a program that can run and then
pass the connection to mpd. ppp Uses this technique to run in this way.
ppp processes can pass their open file descriptors to a central ppp
that is running in order to allow it to implement multilink.
Brian talked a bit about this at the last DevSummit.. It just needs
someone
with the time and knowledge. Possibly Brian could work with Alex to
make sure that
all the functionality of ppp is in mpd. He did say that teh command
language would need
looking at to ensure that people would have a chance to convert their
scripts..
Mpd uses command language different from all others, but I think it is
not a big problem. If we would compare supported PPP extensions then I
think mpd will now win in most nominations.
The main problem I think is a general usage differences. Mpd was planned
and implemented as daemon. It have very limited foreground operation and
integration abilities. pppd as example is able to be called from getty
and terminate after link disconnect, while mpd does not. sppp is somehow
used by i4b project, but I know nothing about it.
If somebody could help me to make list of reasonable requirements and/or
wanted usage examples then I surely will try to implement missing parts.
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