HAL and PPP interfaces

[Andrei Yurkevich]

Joe Shaw wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:16 +0300, Andrei Yurkevich wrote:
> 
>>Anyway, what I'd like have in HAL is a virtual device created under a 
>>USB/serial/ethernet/whatever device node representing the PPP interface. 
> 
> I don't think that PPP interface-as-device is very interesting, and it
> sort of breaks the model of physical devices in HAL.  Those PPP
> properties should probably be merged onto the PDA device itself.

Ok, you almost convinced me, but that would be not the PDA but a device 
in a PC - either a serial port or a bluetooth/usb/whatever device. See, 
I need to know that there is a PPP connection available before I am able 
to talk to a PDA, and the most logical way of knowing about a new PPP 
interface would be querying HAL. So what about adding a "net.ppp" 
namespace and merging properties like these to devices capable of 
running a ppp link:

net.ppp.link (bool) /* TRUE if there's a PPP link available
                        over this device */
net.ppp.interface (string)  /* name of the ppp interface,
                                e.g. ppp0; this might as well
                                be just "net.interface" */

Perhaps, there could be some other useful properties like 
net.ppp.link_name (string) or net.ppp.protocol.{ip/ipx/whatever} (bool), 
but I'm not sure if those can be acquired from outside of pppd.

Comments? Objections?

cheers,
Andrei





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