Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:53:25 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Invitation to participate in PPPoE Trial" (fwd) Message-ID: <19990803225325.E10638@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199908030854.JAA00822@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:54:39AM %2B0100 References: <19990803173021.A10638@caamora.com.au> <199908030854.JAA00822@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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brian, On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:54:39AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:36:23PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > robert@cyrus.watson.org said: > > > > Bell Atlantic recently sent me this email indicating they plan to > > > > migrate their DSL service to using PPP over Ethernet. I'm not > > > > familiar with this encapsulation, but assume that it's something we'd > > > > like to support if we don't already. Does anyone know anything about > > > > this? > > > > > > Doug White's got a working implementation. > > > > > > User-ppp needs to be a bit smarter in the datalink DIAL state by > > > abstracting the expect-send bit into a device-specific chat > > > implementation. Once this is done, the PPPoE discovery bit should be > > > a fairly trivial exercise by opening /dev/bpfX (I think). > > > > would it be possible to run PPPoE with kernel ppp ? or would > > kernel users have to switch over to userland based ppp ? > > You'd need to find someone willing to write it.... this probably > means going to the author. cap in hand, looking fro knee pads, i'm off and grovelling (grin sort off). > WRT PPPoE in user-ppp, at the moment, I'm only interested - I'm too > busy to write it (unless someone wanted to pay me lots of money :-) i realise that all things bright and shiney are seen as must haves, but could you (briefly and not so technically) explain to me and the others who may also be wondering what real advantage PPPoE would offer to endusers. or, please point to a reading list, bibliography, rfc, etc etc. regards, jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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