On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 01:17:57AM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > First what's completely lacking in pfinet is the ability to add and configure > new interfaces, like for a second network card for example.
There is an experimental implementation of these calls: > Hi this is Kunihiro Ishiguro. > I hacked pfinet and some other files (include glibc) to support route > addition, deletion and showing current routing table which exists in > pfinet process. Currently pfinet supports only one interface, so > there are some restrictions exist. But I believe this hack will > useful to everybody who uses pfinet. > > The patches is available under below URL: > > ftp://ftp.zebra.org/pub/hurd/hurd-pfinet-patch-0.1.tar.gz > A thought that crossed my mind was instead of trying to add support for ppp0 > like interfaces to pfinet, one could support a generic "tunneling" interface > that would be used as a bridge between the linux networking code in pfinet > and > an outside daemon like pppd or a translator. I don't claim I understand something about it, but Thomas and Rland spoke about a "pump" server whch fetchs the ip and other stuff and forwards it to pfinet when the connection is build up. You should really contact Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested in working on a hurdish correctly solution. > Aside from the above, would there be any other problems in the way of porint > pppd? I remember that gnumach was lacking support for character devices (or > something simmilar) which was needed by ppp, is that still the case? Depends on how you look at it. There is gnumach with a broken terminal interface (and com doen't work), there are incomplete patches for gnumach character device support, and there is an experimental gnumach using oskit. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
