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Author SHA1 Message Date
Archie Cobbs
f8307e1233 Add two new generic control messages, NGM_ASCII2BINARY and
NGM_BINARY2ASCII, which convert control messages to ASCII and back.
This allows control messages to be sent and received in ASCII form
using ngctl(8), which makes ngctl a lot more useful.

This also allows all the type-specific debugging code in libnetgraph
to go away -- instead, we just ask the node itself to do the ASCII
translation for us.

Currently, all generic control messages are supported, as well as
messages associated with the following node types: async, cisco,
ksocket, and ppp.

See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ngctl for an example of using this.

Also give ngctl(8) the ability to print out incoming data and
control messages at any time.  Eventually nghook(8) may be subsumed.

Several other misc. bug fixes.

Reviewed by:	julian
1999-11-30 02:45:32 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
d690a6e798 Move handling of the address and control fields into the PPP node;
they belong there because they are device independent.
Also some other misc. fixes.
1999-11-10 06:15:22 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
e149c4e211 Fix several bugs found in the first bit of testing. 1999-11-06 02:09:17 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
3949bee834 Revamped and more useful PPP node type, supporting multi-link PPP directly.
This is one piece of the grand unified PPP daemon concept, whereby using
netgraph nodes enables PPP data to be handled completely in kernel land,
while leaving negotiation/control to be handled by a single user land
daemon, no matter what the link type(s).

This is a safety checkin only; it compiles, but is utterly untested.

Concept reviewed by:	julian, brian
1999-10-29 22:30:03 +00:00
Julian Elischer
4cf49a4355 Whistle's Netgraph link-layer (sometimes more) networking infrastructure.
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.

Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from:  Whistle CVS tree
1999-10-21 09:06:11 +00:00