Re: PPP over socket?

Chris Dukes (pakrat@www.uk.linux.org)
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:12:07 +0000

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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