From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 23 21:20:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD6437B416 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020124052010.EOFX26243.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 05:20:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA25443; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:18:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:18:28 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Tony Williams Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on PPPoE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can have several PPPOE sessions active to the same end router, each being forwarded o a different ISP. (similar to VPNs) On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Tony Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a question regarding PPPoE protocol and code. I recently > changed from dial up to a PPPoE service through a DSL provider > and was successful in setting the FreeBSD 4.2 box up! > > Out of curiousity, I went through some of the code in netgraph and > the rfc specification, but unable to follow the necessity for the > Session ID. the protocol says the peer mac address and the session > id determines a unique session. From one peer, one can have only one > internet connection and mac addresses are unique. Why then the session > id also included in the protocol. What is the advantage of having > session id, it is not there in normal dial up PPP and who uses it? > > In my case, the ISP did not mention anything about the session id > and I have only one session from the PC, i assume > > Thanks > -Tony > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message