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Re: PPP for Hurd requirements



On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:30:48PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > trans/pump.c
> > 
> > in the Hurd CVS, which can sit on top of a hurdish socket node and initiate
> > a connection and pass it on to pfinet. It might be useful for PPP, too.
> 
> This is not a good approach to use in the long term.  It is only really
> viable for the case of exactly one interface.

Do you have better ideas? It would be great if you, Thomas et al could discuss
various approaches a bit, just so that people have a foot in the door and
can try to tackle that issue. Currently, there is a huge black cloud hanging
over this, with nobody(?) really knowing what to do.

Thanks,
Marcus

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