Multi-link PPP

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Sep 26 15:28:40 PDT 2009


On Sep 26, 2009, at 17:11, sbwoodside wrote:

> Hi there, I'm maybe tilting at a windmill here but I'd like to port  
> some kind
> of multilink PPP extension to Mac, for example MPD
> (http://mpd.sourceforge.net/) from FreeBSD. A quick look shows that it
> depends on netgraph, which is a fairly low level kernel library in  
> FreeBSD
> that also seems to have been ported to linux kernel 2.4.
>
> So, is this even possible without modifying the kernel? It would  
> seem that
> OS X does support network link bonding which is similar to multilink  
> -- is
> that enough? I basically don't know quite enough about kernel/ 
> drivers to see
> what the path forward is. Any advice is appreciated.

This is probably not the right list to ask that question. This list is  
for the development of MacPorts itself, and the development of  
portfiles for software that already runs on Mac OS X. Though if  
someone has an answer to the question, feel free to offer it.




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