Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Feb 1999 00:46:56 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | simplex-PPP was Re: [patch] drivers/net/plip.c |
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Hi!
> > While I'm at this, I believe that emulating an ethernet adapter bears > > way to much overhead. It seems much more logical and efficient to use > > the PPP protocal over the parallel wire. After all, PLIP is all about > PPP has its own overhead. BTW, do we really want non-IP traffic > over parallel line? > > a point-to-point protocol. It might even make the driver simpler, > > making it behave just like a supercharged serial port. > Hrm... PLIP becoming a line discipline... Interesting. It doesn't > fit too well into this scheme - we can't do transfers in both directions > simultaneously.
Well, we might want to invent simplex-PPP. It would be _very_ handy for IrDA stuff, because we might drop ugly IrDA stack and use simple ppp.
Pavel
PS: Unfortunately, inventing simplex-PPP is not too easy. I tried to do it once, and it worked very slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwly, and I was unable to debug it :-(. But if anyone is capable of doing so, this might be VERY nice hack.
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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