netgraph7 - not for release

[Matthew Dillon]

:Chris Turner wrote:
:> Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>>
:>>      Ok, I do have an ulterior motive here.  I would like DFly to
:>>      support mpd.
:>
:> can't this be done with the userland ppp? never tried.. but saw the docs
:What do you mean?
:
:>
:> granted it's userland, so it won't quite do for my personal set of 
:> bonded OC-48s (ha! I wish!), but in any case ..
:>
:In FreeBSD, the userland PPP client uses netgraph, just like mpd. Except 
:for PPP negotiations and other control traffic, the PPP traffic is 
:processed in the kernel.
:A userland PPP client in DragonFly using netgraph will have the same 
:performance benefits.

    I don't think performance really matters for something like ppp,
    even pppoe, I'm coming at this strictly from a maintainance point
    of view.  I don't want us to have to maintain all that junk.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>