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From: "J Chapman" <jchapman@katalix.com>
Subject: RE: single process pppd for all PPP sessions? [Was [IPCOMP] Use per-cpu buffers]
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:18:39 +0100
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Re: anyone think of doing a single process PPP daemon managing all 
PPP sessions?

Yes, although nothing started yet. Still working on OpenL2TP...
http://openl2tp.sf.net/

-James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu [mailto:herbert@gondor.apana.org.au] 
> Sent: 10 September 2004 12:11
> To: David S. Miller
> Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru; jmorris@redhat.com; netdev@oss.sgi.com;
linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org; paulus@samba.org
> Subject: Re: [IPCOMP] Use per-cpu buffers
> 
[snip]

> On a totally orthogonal topic, has any body thought of doing a PPP
> daemon like the IPsec daemons? That is, have one process that manages
> all PPP sessions.  This could be useful for large L2TP servers and
> alike.
>