Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:34:34 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE Message-ID: <20080719223434.249f4888@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080719134440.GA9147@chateau.d.lf> References: <20080719134440.GA9147@chateau.d.lf>
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ____________ _______________ Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. > I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there > any way I can figure out this ? If you are starting it from the standard rc.d script, you are using user ppp. I think kernel ppp is a legacy feature that was used before the kernel supported tun interfaces. I don't know of any reason for still using it. IIRC with kernel ppp you run pppd (note the d) as root, and the interface shows-up as ppp0; with user ppp, you run ppp as any user, and the interface shows-up as tun0.
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