[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP!

> Well, I've got my serial ports talking PPP, or rather I can see the 
> data
> coming in on my serial port and can escape it to see that it's 
> alright. So,
> I'm probably going to make a very tentative start on a very simple 
> ppp
> module that will simply print details of what it's seeing, and we can 
> then
> start moving on from there to actually responding etc. I'm going to 
> need to
> add the serial async as a device I think to allow me to integrate it 
> into
> the stack, so expect to see some weird stuff in CVS over the next day 
> or so.

That is most excellent :)

> Please note, the code that's going in is VERY, VERY first pass. very 
> quick,
> dirty code just to show a proof of concept and get us into the game. 
> I urge
> you all to review it. There are lots of things to get to grip with on 
> this
> stuff and it's a mess in some ways, though certainly doable.

Wheeee!
 
> Nathan, if you want to jump in with suggestions etc then please do 
> so.

Not any right now. Enjoy my HDLC code, btw. It is designed to only 
speak Be's HDLC (it doesn't support some variations on the format), but 
it works very, very well.
-Nathan

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