Ok.
> If you have a smart firmware-driven PPP board, then wouldn't it be
> doing the ppp negotiation itself, thus removing the need for pppd and
> the kernel ppp driver? Wouldn't it look much more like an ethernet
Yes. However two things apply here that are important
1. It may do PPP, but if I flip it to X.25 it may not do X.25, so the
board itself needs a control of how it hands packets around.
2. I may want to be able to add a board specific ioctl to pick hardware
(low cpu overhead) v software (multilink, cool feature set) PPP
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