Re: Any real usage of sppp(4) on architectures other than i386 or amd64 ?

Reply: Zhenlei Huang : "Re: Any real usage of sppp(4) on architectures other than i386 or amd64 ?"
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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:31:06 UTC

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:25:26PM +0800, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
Z> I just fixed one long standing bug of sppp(4) [1]. During the testing I found ng_sppp(4) depends on this module. Unfortunately sppp(4) is only enabled on i386 and amd64 by default but ng_sppp(4) is enabled on all architectures. So on architectures other than i386 and amd64 `kldload ng_sppp` will never succeed.
Z> 
Z> I suppose sppp(4) is rarely used nowadays so I'm planing to conditionally build ng_sppp(4) only on i386 and amd64. Is there still real usage of sppp(4) on other architectures ?
Z> 
Z> 1. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173002

I would claim there is no usage of neither sppp(4) nor ng_sppp(4) on any
architecture in a very long term.  Last time I run this kind of network framing
in 2004 and in that times the right way to do it was either pure negraph(4)
graph based on ng_cisco(4) or ports/net/mpd + ng_ppp(4).

Don't waste your time on this code.

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff