Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP

From: Jamal Hadi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:22:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> In the long run, the right answer probably is to push the session management
> out of the daemon and into the kernel.  Today the PPPoE code in the kernel
> is only half-brained, it needs pppd to survive.
>

I would think pppd is the half-brained portion ;->

Placing control protocols in the kernel is plain wrong.

cheers,
jamal