From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 15:26:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E781437BD38 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA47366 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13510 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <38DFEDF0.BFCC1DD8@sftw.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:25:36 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Colaberation invited -- ports/net/mpd-netgraph + pppoe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I friend of mine just got Pac$Bell Internet (see the story in -questions), and he uses PPPoE over DSL to connect to the net. /usr/sbin/ppp works just fine, but being the sort I am, I am dissatisfied with the solution, since there's still so much context switching involved (given that the equivalent to ng_ppp is still in userland). The much better solution, IMHO, is to add PPPoE support to ports/net/mpd-netgraph, and I have embarked on a course to do so. It's slow going, as it's my first real grope into netgraph in a big way (playing with ngctl and ksockets doesn't count). I am plenty happy to talk with anyone about this and it would be particularly helpful if someone who uses PPPoE could test the result, when it's ready (my friend is not inclined to be a tester for this sort of thing. The current solution is good enough for him). The eventual goal, of course, is to have a pair of machines run PPP over a cross-connect 10baseT cable. At the moment, however, call "origination" is favored. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message