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SubjectRe: simplex-PPP was Re: [patch] drivers/net/plip.c
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> 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.

Simplex SLIP is quite doable. Robin O'Leary's "scarabd" basically does this.
Especially if you have some kind of carrier signal you can use heuristics
to do collision evasion. The alternative scheme is to use a polling master/slave
setup


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