Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:03:06 +0200
From: Farid Hajji <farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net>
> > I am interested in working on ppp for hurd. I am curious as to what
> > progress has been made in that direction, and if anyone is actively
> > working on it right now?
> I plan on working on ppp for the Hurd. Next quarter (Fall) I am taking
> a directed study to meet a course elective (for B.S. Computer Engineering
> at Milwaukee School of Engineering, MSOE). I plan on porting pppd as the
> final project.
I am also interested in seeing FreeBSD's user-level ppp(8) ported to
the Hurd. I didn't start working on it yet, but given support from other
people, it could be possible to do it together. The biggest problem I see
here, is that it will be probably necessary to interface to pfinet which
is currently in a somewhat shaky state (please correct me, if I'm wrong).
The current pfinet is indeed in a somewhat shaky state. It seems that
threads waiting for packets to arrive, aren't woken up when they do.
Perhaps that condition isn't signalled properly.
This just begs for someone with a little patience to grab the debugger
and see what's happening.
Mark
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