[openbeosnetteam] Re: general or PPP ideas
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:56:14 -0400
> Hi,
> AFAIK, each used protocol (IP, IPX, etc.) must be specified and
> configured
> for each link (Ethernet, PPP). How is this done at the moment? So,
> there is
> no possibility to add a protocol by just adding the driver. It must
> be
> configured for each device. This means that we need a good
> configuration
> scheme.
> I think that it would be cool to use a structure to describe a
> connection
> (at least for PPP).
>
> The structure describes which modules should be loaded and it defines
> substructures to configure each module. This is useful especially for
> our
> modular design (like I want to implement it for PPP).
> The syntax should be the same as for driver settings. The settings
> code
> could be reused and with our new OBOS implementation we can even save
> them
> to disk or modify them easily.
Alternately, we could simply assign attributes to the interfaces (ip
address, etc.). The various protocols, in asking for all available,
say, ethernet interfaces, could read any settings pertaining to them
from these nodes. Global protocol/interface specific settings could be
written to the node at run time of the net stack from a settings file,
using something like Peter Folk's NodeMessage.
-Nathan
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