В ср, 27/06/2007 в 01:50 +0300, Alexander Motin пишет: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > There has been some talk about whether mpd should be put in the base > > system to replace our 3 other ppp implementations. I guess one step > > would be to see what the usage cases would be for replacing if_ppp and > > sppp and a first step > > would be to see how many users of these there are. > > 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. > pppd - outdated many years. In theory can be fast with modem links, > but who need them now? If used with other programs like poptop will > loose it's performance to ppp level due to context switches. > sppp - outdated too, but I have never used it. Is there anything > except ISDN using it? In my country ISDN is mostly out of use now. > mpd - very fast and functional solution. But it is a daemon with > limited abilities to be used by other software like getty or some > wrappers like pppoed for ppp or GUIs like kppp.
There are also some ppp(d)-based programs in tree, like rfcomm_pppd (bluetooth modem connection), which behave like ppp/pppd. just one more notice -- Vladimir B. Grebenschikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mpd-users mailing list Mpd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mpd-users
